Progress Monitoring Assessment 6.12ABC and 6.13C

The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their non-living environment.

• habitat

• community

• ecosystem

• popuation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which of the following correctly lists the levels of organization from least complex to most complex?

• Community, Organism, Population, Ecosystem

• Population, Community, Ecosystem, Organism

• Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem

• Ecosystem, Population, Organism, Community

Which level of organization is the most complex?

• organism

• population

• community

• ecosystem

For what are the wildcat and the fox competing?

• Goat

• rabbit

• owl

• hawk

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Choose all the abiotic factors listed

• water

• mates

• space

• temperature

• predators

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Choose all the biotic factors listed

• sunlight

• food

• predators

• disease

• water

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which color of grasshopper has a population that is decreasing?

• Green

• Brown

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Biotic factors are ___________.

• non-living parts of an ecosystem

• living parts of an ecosystem

• things that once were alive, but now are dead

• not important parts of ecosystems.

Which of the examples below can BEST be described as mutualism between animals?

• A tapeworm lives in the intestine of a bird and consumes the food that the bird has eaten
• Mountain lions and wolves fight each other for the same deer
• A bird eats parasites off a rhinoceros while the rhinoceros provides protection to the bird
• Rats live in the garbage dump of a town and rarely interact with people

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped

• Commensalism
• Parasitism
• Mutualism
• Competition