Ecology review

Starfish

• Biotic (living)

• Abiotic (non-living)

Sunlight

• Biotic (living)

• Abiotic (non-living)

wind

• Biotic (living)

• Abiotic (non-living)

Mushroom

• biotic (livng)

• Abiotic (non-living)

A snake is eaten by a hawk. The hawk is the _______.

• prey
• parasite
• predator
• all of these

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

• True
• False

If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then...

• Populations will stay the same
• Populations will decrease
• Populations will increase

Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.

• a limiting measure
• a limiting factor
• factorization
• materialization of precipitation

A non-native plant that causes problems to the environment that it is introduced to is called __________.

• Invasive
• Weed
• Indigenous
• Purple

Burmese Pythons are __________ in the Florida Everglades

• Native
• Natural
• Invasive/Introduced
• Dancing