Introducing Ecology Vocabulary Quiz

Living, or produced by living things (a)  

• Environmental Factor
• Abiotic Factor
• Genetic Factor
• Biotic Factor

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

More than one individual or population in an ecosystem that relies upon the same limited resource (a)  

• Limited Resource
• Competition
• Dependent Interaction
• Organism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Something that is needed by organisms and is not infinite in its abundance in the environment; if it is exhausted, then the organisms that need it cannot survive (a)  

• Resources
• Limited Resources
• Competition
• Population

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A self-contained living thing (a)  

• Biotic Factor
• Abiotic Factor
• Organism
• Secondary Consumer

Not living, or produced by living (a)  

• Abiotic Factor
• Biotic Factor
• Population
• Organism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The largest population an area can support (a)  

• Population
• Primary Consumer
• Carrying Capacity
• Secondary Consumer

A system comprising all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area and all the interactions among them (a)  

• Resources
• Carrying Capacity
• Population
• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Source or supply from which benefit is produced (a)  

• Abiotic Factor
• Resource
• Biotic Factor
• Limited Resource

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

A group of living things that share (physical) traits and can breed successfully with each other, but NOT with other groups is called (a)  

This large area of Earth that has certain physical conditions (weather/climate) and the living things that are found here is called a (a)  

• biome
• ecosystem
• biosphere
• population