Ecosystems & Limiting Factors

An ecosystem is made up of _______ and ________ things.

• Living and nonliving
• Alive and dead
• Plants and animals
• Land and water

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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

Populations contain more than one member of the species. Which one of these is a population?

• Deer and mice
• 10 squirrels
• squirrel
• squirrel, deer, and mice

What does the word organism mean?

• Living thing
• Nonliving thing
• Organs in your body
• Organ player

What is another word for an animal's home?

• Habitat
• Niche
• Population
• Organism

Biotic factors are

• Living

• nonliving

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Abiotic factors

• living

• nonliving

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Water would be an example of:

• Biotic

• abiotic

For what are the wildcat and the fox competing?

• Goat

• rabbit

• owl

• hawk

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All of the organisms of the same species in an area is defined as:

• Community

• population

• limiting factor

• carrying capacity