Environmental Organization of Life Quiz

Match the following invertebrates with their characteristics.

• Single-celled organisms that can be found in various environments

• protists

• Single-celled eukaryotes, often found in aquatic environments

• bacteria

• Small mammals, not invertebrates

• insects

• Generally small, allowing them to live on little food and to hide from enemies

• mice

(a)   are vertebrates.

• clams
• frogs
• worms
• insects

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Which of the following are considered lower plants?

• flowering plants and pine trees

• algae and mosses

• ferns and mosses

• ferns and grasses

Which of the following is an abiotic factor in an ecosystem?

• plants

• bacteria

• fungi

• water

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Natural selection is the unequal survival that results from the presence or absence of

• cell walls.

• particular traits.

• learned behaviors.

• breeding.

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A population is best described as (a)  

• members of same species living in the same area
• all the red birds in an area
• all types of organisms living in th
• all the members of the same species

A desert ecosystem contains

• air.

• living things.

• sand.

• All of the above

Bacteria that are no longer killed by an antibiotic have

• evolved.

• developed unwanted adaptations.

• developed resistance to the antibiotic.

• All of the above

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Which of the following kingdoms includes algae?

• plants

• fungi

• protists

• eubacteria

Single-celled organisms with cell walls but no nuclei are

• fungi.

• bacteria.

• protists.

• All of the above