Ecology Knowledge Check - Bio

This is a large group of similar ecosystems, has similar weather, rainfall, animals, and plants

• Biome

• Environment

• Organism

• Ecosphere

The living or once living components of a community; for example organisms, such as animals and plants.

• Producers

• Environment

• Biotic

• Abiotic

Different populations living and interacting with each other in the same area

• Biome
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Niche

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The idea that no two species within an ecosystem can occupy the exact same niche

• niche overlap
• niche differentiation
• competitive exclusion
• niche decay

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The living world is organized in levels. Biotic and abiotic factors also can be arranged into levels of biological organization. Put the words below in order from the least complex to the most complex

• Community, Organism, Biome, Population, Biosphere, Ecosystem

• Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere

• Organism, Biome, Population, Community Biosphere, Ecosystem

A species that plays a far more important in its community than its relative abundance might suggest.

• Keystone Species

• Pioneer Species

• Indicator Species

• Exotic Species

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The particular role (job) of an organism in its environment including types of food it eats, how it obtains its food and how it interacts with other organisms is called a what?

• niche
• habitat
• home
• ecosystem

In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in each level gets lost as heat or used by the organism for survival?

• 80%
• 90%
• 10%
• 20%

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The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.
• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste is a(an) ___________.

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• autotroph

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