Ecology Chapter 1

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 1.8 million
• 1.25 million
• 1.6 million
• 1.o million

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What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A
• B
• C
• D

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What is the difference between the biotic and abiotic factors?

• Biotic factors are living things and abiotic factors are nonliving things.

• Biotic factors are nonliving things and abiotic factors are living things.

What does letter A in the graph represent?

• population is increasing

• population is decreasing

• population size is stable

• population is extinct

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What would be a good example of a primary consumer?

• carnivore

• detrivore

• decomposer

• herbivore

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Members of a species in a defined area

• Ecosystem
• community
• biodiversity
• population

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Study of interactions between organisms and their environment 

• niche
• community 
• ecology
• ecosystem

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Non-living factor that affects an ecosystem

• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• food chain 
• biome

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

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

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An area where an organism finds food, shelter and water in a specific arrangement

• niche
• biosphere
• biome
• habitat