Review for Unit 2 Lesson 1 and 2 (Book C)

Which statement most completely summarizes how the sea dragon interacts with its environment?

• It interacts only with other animals.

• It interacts with a variety of living and nonliving factors.

• It gets oxygen from the water and takes shelter in seaweeds.

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Which elements are abiotic factors in the sea dragon's ecosystem? Select all that apply.

• Water

• Nutrients dissolved in water

• seaweeds

• Sand and rocks on the sea floor

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Which factors are included in a forest community? Select all that apply.

• every squirrel in the forest

• all of the forest’s populations

• plants, fungi, and microbes in the forest

• rushing stream

• rock on which turtles and frogs sit

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Which option describes how the fish interacts with abiotic factors in the ecosystem? Select all that apply.

• The fish swims in the water.

• The owl eats the fish.

• The fish breathes oxygen in the water.

• The fish lays eggs on water plants.

• The fish eats water bugs.

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How might an abundance of food resources affect the caribou population? Select all that apply

• The population would increase in size.

• The population would decrease in size.

• The caribou would start to eat other types of food.

• There would be less competition between the caribou for food.

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How would a shortage of water likely affect the caribou? Select all that apply.

• The population would increase in size.

• The population would decrease in size.

• The growth of individual caribou would increase.

• The growth of individual caribou would decrease.

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Which of the resources listed would organisms most likely compete over in the abyssal zone (bottom of the ocean)?

• Shelter

• Sunlight

• Nutrients

• Temperature

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(Still using the chart above) The most diverse community would typically be found in the ______ because it has the _______ amount of basic resources.

• Coral reef/least

• Mesopelagic zone/greatest

• Coral reef/greatest

• abyssal zone/least

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