6th Grade Science - Week 5

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

• zone

• niche

• ecosystem

• biosphere

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

• Biologist

• Ecologist

• Botanist

A population is a group of the same type of ________ living in the same area.

• animals

• organism

• plants

• microbes

Many ecologists study changes in the size of _______.

• populations

• communities

• resources

• molecules

Within a ________ organisms are always being born and dying.

• zone

• community

• biosphere

• population

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

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

• viable

• stable

• safe

• unstable

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

• changing

• close

• different

• equal

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

• decrease

• increase

• be stable

• disappear

Ecologists collect ______ to learn about a population.

• samples

• data

• information

• animals

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Samples that represent as much of the whole population as possible provide _______ evidence.

• weaker

• stronger

• better

• good