ecology review 2019

Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all ___________ parts of the environment.

• biotic
• abiotic
• dead
• scavenged

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Things or organisms that regulate the size of a population are known as ______. 

• regulators
• limiting factors
• communities
• carrying capacity

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

All the organisms of a particular type living in the same place at the same time is called a _______.  An example is a herd of deer.

• population
• community
• resource
• ecosystem

A living or once-living thing in an ecosystem is a(n) _______.

• biotic factor
• population
• abiotic factor
• resource

The largest number of individuals that an area can support is called its _______.

• limiting factor
• abiotic factor
• resource availability
• carrying capacity

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NGSS.HS-LS2-1

Which of the following describes a biotic factor affecting other parts of an ecosystem?

• sunlight increasing the temperature, causing plants to die
• a forest fire destroying thousands of acres of trees
• a coyote hunting, killing, and eating rabbits
• chemical pollution causing the pH of a river to increase

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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Which of these can be a limiting factor in an ecosystem?

• food
• space
• disease
• all of the choices

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What determines the carrying capacity in an ecosystem?

• the number of different species in the ecosystem
• limiting factors
• only biotic factors
• only abiotic factors

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What type of resource is air?

• population
• biotic
• competitive
• abiotic

What does the graph represent?

• Emigration
• Exponential growth
• Immigration
• Logistic Growth

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