Ecosystems Unit 1 PreTest

1. Any material or energy needed by living things to survive, grow, and reproduce is called

• Ecosystem

• Resource

• Population

• Species

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An individual living thing is called a...

• Species

• Population

• Resource

• Organism

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A group of populations of living things and the nonliving parts of their environment that support them are called...

• Consumers

• Producers

• Species

• Ecosystem

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A group of living things that share traits and can breed successfully with each other, but not with other groups are called a

• Biome

• Organism

• Species

• Resource

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A group of individuals of a species that lives and reproduces in the same area are called a...

• Competition

• Species

• Population

• Ecosystem

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A relationship in which one organism, the predator, benefits by eating another organism, the prey.

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Predation

• Commensalism

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A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is unaffected.

• Commensalism

• Predation

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

A relationship between two species in which both species benefit.

• Predation

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

A relationship in which one species benefits while the other is harmed but not usually killed

• Predation

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

An organism that mainly eats plants or plant parts.

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

• Preditor