Ecology Vocabulary Quiz 2022

Communities are made up of living things only. Which one of these is a community?

• Trees, birds, dirt, worms

• Deer, grass, leaves, bunnies

• Whales, water, seashells, fish

• Sand, camels, mountains, coyotes

The place where an organism lives is its _________.

• habitat
• abiotic
• ecosystem
• community

A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area are called a/an ________.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What are the nonliving parts of the ecosystem? This includes temperature, water, sunlight, air, and soil.

• biotic factors
• communities
• abiotic factors
• microorganisms 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is the branch of science that deals with the study of living things and their relationship with the environment?

• Anthropology

• Ecology

• Ecosystems

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A consumer that eats animals only.

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

A consumer that eats plants only.

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

A diagram that shows the transfer of energy in an ecosystem by using several food chains.

• ecosystem

• food web

• environment

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organisms that hunt other organisms for food are called __________.

• predators
• prey
• producers
• heterotrophs