Ecosystems

What is an ecosystem?

• A group of animals that are the same species.
• Soil, water, air and sunlight
• All the living and non living things that interact in an area.
• North America

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What is the name for all the animals of the same species living in an ecosystem?

• Population
• Community

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What is the name for all the living things in an ecosystem?

• Population
• Community

Which is an abiotic factor that would affect the growth of a population within an ecosystem?

• the availability of water
• the availability of producers
• the type of herbivores present
• the number of carnivores present

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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Organisms that make up the living part of an ecosystem.

• abiotic
• biotic factors
• ecology
• ecosystems

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Nonliving things found in an ecosystem.

• factories
• factor trees
• biotic factors
• abiotic factors

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Something that limits the size  of a population.

• maxfactor
• factor tree
• the x factor
• limiting factor

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Which is a biotic factor?

• sunlight
• air 
• bacteria
• all of the above

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Which statement is correct?

• A population is the same as a community
• A community is a group of populations
• A community is a part of a population
• A population is a group of communities

In an ecosystem, producers and consumers are both __________.

• biotic factors
• very nice
• cranky
• abiotic factors

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