6th Grade Science - Population and Resources

An _______ includes all the living and nonliving things in a particular area.

• ecosystem

• biosphere

• atmosphere

• geosphere

An ________ is a scientist who studies interactions of organisms with one another and their environment.

• biologist

• ecologist

• geologist

• botanist

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A _______ is a group of the same type of organism living in the same area.

• ecosystem

• community

• population

• biosphere

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Many ecologists study changes in the size of ________.

• populations

• organisms

• communities

• niches

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Within a population organisms are always being ____ and ____.

• changing

• growing

• born

• dying

A system can be stable even as things are being added to and removed from it. If the amounts being added and being removed are not _____, then the system will change.

• large enough

• growing

• equal

• safe

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

If the number of births and deaths in a given time are equal, then the population size will be _______.

• weak

• good

• strong

• stable

If there are more births than deaths in a given time, then the size of the population will _________.

• be stable

• increase

• decrease

• prosper

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

If there are fewer births than deaths, then the size of the population will _______.

• be stable

• decrease

• increase

• disappear

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Ecologists collect ________ to learn about a population.

• examples

• information

• date

• samples