Ecology

What is ecology?

• the study of rocks

• the study of relationships between organisms and their environments

• the study of the ocean

• the study of animals and plants

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What is the definition of a population?

• all individuals of one kind living in one area

• one single organism

• any living thing

• many different organisms living in one area

What is the definition of a community?

• any living thing

• one single individual

• all the individuals of one kind in one area

• all of the populations living in one area

Biotic means:

• living organisms and the remains of living organisms

• non-living

Abiotic means:

• living organisms and the remains of living organisms

• non-living

You get all of your energy from . . .

• Exercise

• Food

• Sleep

• Water

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Spiders eat flies. When drawing the food web for this relationship, you should draw the arrow:

• FROM the spider, TO the fly

• FROM the fly, TO the spider

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Select the three things plants need to do photosynthesis.

• Water

• Glucose

• Carbon dioxide

• Light energy

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What energy molecule do plants make as a result of photosynthesis?

• Water

• Oxygen

• Carbon dioxide

• Glucose

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What do plants use to take in carbon dioxide?

• Chloroplasts

• Small openings in their leaves called stomata

• Their roots

• Their stem

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