Ecology Chapter 1 Test

What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A
• B
• C
• D

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

What would be a good example of a primary consumer?

• carnivore

• detrivore

• decomposer

• herbivore

Members of a species in a defined area

• Ecosystem
• community
• biodiversity
• population

Study of interactions between organisms and their environment 

• niche
• community 
• ecology
• ecosystem

Non-living factor that affects an ecosystem

• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• food chain 
• biome

A collection of organisms that belong to different populations but all live in the same area and interact with one another.

• Population
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Ecosphere

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

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

The living part of an ecosystem

• Biotic
• Abiotic
• Mother Earth
• Flowers