Population Ecology

What is a habitat?

• How an animal behaves.

• Specific place where an animal lives

• A group of the same animals living together.

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NGSS.5-LS2-1

What is a niche?

• An organism's role in its environment

• A type of bird

• A type of habitat

• A type of plant

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Organisms that produce their own food mostly through photosynthesis (producers). Examples are plants and algae.

• Ominvore

• Detritivore

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organisms that get their energy and nutrition from other organisms (consumers).

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Decomposer

• Detritivore

Heterotrophs that get energy and nutrition from dead or decaying organisms or their waste products and recycle nutrients back to the ecosystem.

• Producer

• Trophic

• Decomposer

• Autotrooph

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is a lion?

• autotroph

• heterotroph

Which of the following is an autotroph?

• frog
• algae
• worm
• mouse

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

A population is...

• A group of one species in one area
• Multiple species that live in one area
• All of the living and nonliving things in an area
• None of these

What will happen to the population when the death rate is larger than the birth rate?

• increase

• decrease

• stay the same
• None of these

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What will happen to the population when the birth rate is larger than the death rate?

• increase

• decrease

• stay the same
• none of these

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4