Interactions Within Ecosystems

Who's the one munching on others in the ecosystem party?

• Producer

• Consumer

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Imagine you're in a lush green forest, surrounded by all sorts of plants. If you were an organism that munched only on these plants, what would you be called?

• omnivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

• detriovore

Imagine you're in a wild treasure hunt, but here's the twist: you're not alone! You and your rivals are racing to grab the same treasure. What do we call this intense race for a limited treasure, be it food, water, light, space, mates, or nesting sites in the natural world?

• competition

• predation

• limiting factor

• carrying capacity

Which of these is classified as a living entity?

• decomposer

• ecosystem

• organism

• habitat

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Guess who's the solar power champion, turning sunlight into food?

• consumer

• producer

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Guess what? All the feeding relationships in an ecosystem have a special name. Can you pick it out?

• food web

• food chain

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Imagine you're an explorer in the vast ecosystem! What is that one thing, be it a living creature or a non-living element, that acts like a boss to control how many buddies can survive in a population?

• population

• limiting factor

• competition

• predation

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Imagine you're an explorer, journeying through a land where the weather changes at the drop of a hat, rocks form mazes, and the temperature can go from one extreme to another. What do we call these nonliving factors?

• abiotic

• biotic

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What's the Carrying Capacity?

• The ultimate number of bags you can lug in a single journey

• The biggest bunch of nuggets you can fit into a container

• The largest population that an environment can sustain

• The maximum chunk size of a candy bar in a king-size package

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You're an explorer in the world of biology! You've come across a unique group of organisms that are identical to each other but unlike any other group on Earth.

What term would you use to describe this group?

• individual

• species

• creature

• thing