Ecology Vocabulary Quiz Review

Temperature, air, water, soil, sunlight and climate are all _____________ parts of an ecosystem.

• Abiotic

• Food Chain

• Habitat

• Biotic

Describes the living (or once living) factors in the environment.

• Abiotic

• Decomposer

• Food Chain

• Biotic

An individual (only one) animal or plant

• population

• community

• organism

• ecosystem

All the organisms in an ecosystem that belong to the same species

• ecosystem

• community

• population

• food chain

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All the populations in an ecosystem make a

• ecosystem

• community

• organism

• biosphere

All of the organisms living in an area and the nonliving features of their environment

• biosphere

• population

• ecosystem

• community

The part of the earth that supports life, including the top portions of the earth's crust, all the waters that cover earth's surface, and the surrounding atmosphere.

• population

• biosphere

• community

• ecosystem

Organisms that use an outside energy source, such as the Sun, to make their own energy

• producer

• consumer

• scavenger

• decomposer

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Organisms that eat other organisms. They cannot use the sun's energy to make food like producers can.

• producer

• consumer

• scavenger

• decomposer

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A consumer that eats only producers.

• food chain

• omnivore

• carnivore

• herbivore