Living Things and the Environment Quiz

Groundhogs inhabiting a meadow environment drink water and rely on plants, including clover, for food. Which of the following terms describe both the water and the clover that the groundhogs consume?

• Limiting Factors
• Abiotic Factors
• Biotic Factors
• Resources

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What is the correct order of levels of ecologycal organization from the least complex (the smallest) to the most complex (the biggest)?

• Population, biome, ecosystem, community, organism, biosphere
• Biosphere, biome, ecosystem, community, population, organism
• Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
• Organism, ecosystem, biome, byosphere, population, community

Which of the following describes a population?

• 85 great white sharks off Cape Cod
• thousands of dolphins and whales around Hawaii
• a mating pair of seagulls migrating to an island
• corals, sponges, algae, reef fish, lobsters, and giant clams

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Which of the following is a biotic factor that might limit a population?

• water for the mice to drink
• rainy weather that floods the mice's nests
• owls that prey on the mice
• rocks in which the mice can hide from predators

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In terms of its effect on population, which factor is most similar to birth rate and it will increase the population?

• immigration
• density
• emigration
• carrying capacity

Select all of the following that make up a community in a forest.

• Deer
• Trees
• Owls
• Rocks
• Water

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Which of the following would cause a population to increase?

• The death rate is higher then the birth rate
• The birth rate is higher then the death rate
• Limiting factors are causing the population to decrease
• Predators are hunting the population

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In a forest the population of white-tailed deer has increased drastically due to the absence of natural predators. Which of these can become a limiting factor for the further growth of its population?

• increase in food supply
• increase in vegetation
• more resources become available
• decrease in food supply

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The American Plains bison is a grassland species that eats mostly grasses. By the late 1800s, hunting came close to causing this animal to disappear from the western United States. In the early 1900s, landowners and the U.S. government took steps to save the bison. The graph shows data collected in northern Yellowstone National Park between 1902 and 1915. What information do the y-axis values on the graph represent?

• Population Size
• Community Size
• Speices Death Rate
• Emigration Rate

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The American Plains bison is a grassland species that eats mostly grasses. By the late 1800s, hunting came close to causing this animal to disappear from the western United States. In the early 1900s, landowners and the U.S. government took steps to save the bison. The graph shows data collected in northern Yellowstone National Park between 1902 and 1915. Which of the following events could have caused the change shown in the graph? Choose all that apply.

• Natual Disaster
• Decrease in Food
• Increase in Shelter
• Departure of Bison
• Decrease in Hunting of Bison

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