A place that provides all the things an organism needs to live

A place where only animals live

What is a population in the context of biology?

A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time

A group of people living in the same city

A single organism living in an area

All the plants and animals living in a particular area

What does the term "community" refer to in an ecological context?

B) The group of all populations in an area

A) A group of interacting individuals of the same species in an area

C) A collection of different ecosystems

D) The non-living components of an environment

A consumer that hunts and eats another animal

A consumer that hunts and eats plants

A producer that provides food for other animals

A decomposer that breaks down dead material

What is the definition of prey?

B) Any animal that is hunted by others for food

C) A group of animals living together

What is a producer in an ecosystem?

An organism that can make its own food for energy

An organism that consumes other organisms for energy

An organism that decomposes organic material

An organism that relies on external sources of heat for energy

What are consumers in the context of an ecosystem?

Organisms that get their energy from eating other organisms

Organisms that produce their own food through photosynthesis

Organisms that decompose dead matter

Organisms that rely solely on water for energy

A consumer that eats and gets energy only from plants.

A consumer that eats both plants and animals.

A producer that makes its own food through photosynthesis.

A consumer that eats and gets energy only from animals.

A consumer that eats and gets energy only from animals

A consumer that eats and gets energy from plants only

A consumer that eats and gets energy from both plants and animals

A producer that makes its own food through photosynthesis

A consumer that eats and gets energy from plants and animals.

A consumer that only eats plants.

A consumer that only eats animals.

A producer that makes its own food.

What is a decomposer?

An organism that gets its energy from breaking down wastes and dead organisms.

An organism that gets its energy from the sun.

An organism that gets its energy from eating other living organisms.

An organism that gets its energy from water.

What is a food chain?

C. A series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another.

A. A series of restaurants linked by a common owner.

B. A process by which water cycles through the environment.

D. A method of categorizing different types of foods.

A diagram showing the flow of energy in a food chain is provided. Which of the following correctly describes the sequence of energy flow as depicted in the diagram?

B. Sun → Grass → Mouse → Snake → Eagle

A. Sun → Grass → Snake → Eagle → Mouse

C. Sun → Mouse → Grass → Snake → Eagle

D. Sun → Eagle → Snake → Mouse → Grass

A diagram that combines many food chains into one picture

A process by which plants make their own food

A single sequence of who eats whom in an ecosystem

What do the arrows in a food web represent?

The flow of energy from one organism to another

The migration patterns of animals

The physical movement of organisms

What does the Food Pyramid show about the transfer of energy in a food chain?

Each level of a food chain passes on less food energy than the level before it.

Each level of a food chain passes on more food energy than the level before it.

Each level of a food chain passes on the same amount of food energy as the level before it.

The Food Pyramid does not relate to the transfer of energy in a food chain.

Match the following levels of classification to their definitions:

All the different living things

All the biotic and abiotic things

The number of trout in a stream

The size of a population of bears in a certain area

How people or organisms are spread out in an area

A scavenger is an animal that ________

Eats animals that are already dead or decaying

Eats other animals it has hunted

Organism that breaks down other dead organisms

Components of an Ecosystem Quiz

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30 sec • 1 pt

What are the components of an ecosystem?

Only living things

Only nonliving things

Both living and nonliving things and their interactions

Only animals and plants

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30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is considered a nonliving component of an ecosystem?

Animals

Plants

Water

Fungus

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Which of the following is considered a living component of an ecosystem?

Light

Air

Bacteria

Minerals

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30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is an example of a biotic component in an ecosystem?

Water

Soil

Bacteria

Light

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30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is an example of an abiotic component?

Plants

Animals

Fungus

Minerals

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30 sec • 1 pt

What does 'biotic' mean in the context of an ecosystem?

Nonliving things

Living things

Artificial things

Invisible things

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What does 'abiotic' mean in the context of an ecosystem?

Living things

Invisible things

Nonliving things

Artificial things

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Components of an Ecosystem Quiz

What are the components of an ecosystem?

Which of the following is considered a nonliving component of an ecosystem?

Which of the following is considered a living component of an ecosystem?

Which of the following is an example of a biotic component in an ecosystem?

Which of the following is an example of an abiotic component?

What does 'biotic' mean in the context of an ecosystem?

What does 'abiotic' mean in the context of an ecosystem?

What is a habitat?

Which of the following is NOT shown as a type of habitat in the diagram?

What is a population in the context of biology?

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