Ecosystems

An ecosystem is _______________.

• all the nonliving things in an area.

• a single organism living in an environment.

• when you take all the populations of organisms living together in an environment.

• made up of all living and nonliving things in an environment.

_________ factors are all the living things in an environment.

• Biotic

• Abiotic

• Limiting

• Habitats

True or false: Biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem DO NOT interact with each other.

• True

• False

What is a habitat?

• A way an animal behaves.

• A group of the same animals living together.

• A specific place where an animal naturally lives.

• When an animal lives in a place that is not their home eg. a zoo

In a habitat, animals have a __________, which is their special role, how they interact, get food and shelter.

• niche

• ecosystem

• community

• population

Limiting factors are sometimes helpful because they can keep the population from getting too large.

• True
• False

Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all  _____  parts of the environment

• alive
• biotic 
• abiotic
• living

True or false: Ecosystems vary around the world.

• False

• True

Which one of the following is NOT one of the 6 major land biomes?

• Grassland

• Taiga

• Equator

• Temperate rainforest

True or false: Near the poles are warm weather biomes

• True

• False