Biology Quiz

______ can be described in terms of abiotic factors (such as climate and soil) and biotic factors (such as plants & animals).

A community is made up of ______.

• many species that can breed and produce fertile offspring

• all the peoples in the neighborhood

• group of ecosystems sharing the same climate

• many populations living in the same area

There are many cycles of matter, but the four main ones in biology are: Water, carbon, nitrogen, and ______.

______ are non-living part of the environment like sunlight, heat, humidity, precipitation, or wind.

• Abiotic factors
• ecosystems

• biotic factors

• community

In ecological pyramids we can see energy passed from one trophic level to the next but some is lost through ______.

• Heat
• smell

• death

• not following a map

Which of the following is not one of the 6 attributes of living things:

• made of cells

• homeostasis

• high level of organization

• evolved

Biology is the study of ______.

• plants

• animals

• cells

• life

A simple, testable statement that predicts the answer to a question is ______.

• Hypothesis
• theory

• law

A variable that is changed to determine the outcome of an experiment is called the ___.

• Dependent variable

• Independent variable

• Control variable

What is a way that organisms obtain energy?

• Food consumed

• Homeostasis

• Photosynthesis