What is Ecology?

• It is the study of the Earth.

• It is the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment.

• It is the study of recycling.

A group of interbreeding organisms (species) living in the same area

• ecosystem

• community

• population

All the populations in an ecosystem

• ecosystem

• community

• species

Also known as a biome, includes all the living and nonliving features of an environment.

• ecosystem

• community

• population

Nonliving factors that affects an ecosystem are called...

• biotic factors

• abiotic factors

• biome factors

Which of the following is an example of a population?

• the cats and dogs in your neighborhood

• the local park

• the gray wolves in a forest

If a scientists are studying the insects, birds, fish, and plants in an area, but not the water or the rocks, what ecological organization would they be studying?

• ecosystem

• population

• community

What word best describes the mammals, fish, birds, and plants, as well as the sun, soil, air, and water in an environment?

• abiotic

• ecosystem

• community

The five levels of organization in the environment, from the first to the fifth level are_________________

• organism, population, biosphere, ecosystem, community

• organisms, population, biotic elements, abiotic elements

• organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere

What type of symbiosis? Skunks often live in burrows that have been dug and abandoned by woodchucks.

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism