Terms Used in Ecology

Where an organism lives

• habitat
• niche 
• heterotroph

• biosphere

What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers /Autotrophs

• Consumers /Heterotrophs

• Decomposers

• Scavengers

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Which is an example of an ecosystem?

• An area of cold climate and communities of different species

• one elk

• a group of elks living together in the same area

• elks, snow rabbits, and owls living in the same area

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What is a population?

• a group of individuals of different species that live in the same area

• a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area

• a community of different species and their environment

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Which definition best fits the term BIOTIC?

• The study of the interactions between animals and their environment

• Factors in the environment that are considered not alive

• Factors in the environment that are considered living or the remains of living things

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An organism that helps to recycle nutrients within an ecosystem by eating dead or decaying organisms is a:

• Predator

• Autotroph

• Producer

• Decomposer

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The ecological role an organism performs in their specific environment is considered the organism's...

• Habitat

• Population

• Biome

• Niche

The parts of Earth where life exists

• Hydropshere

• Biosphere

• Atmosphere

• Litosphere

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Which term refers to a group of interacting organisms of different species living in a particular area?

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Habitat

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What is the study of the relationships between living organisms and their environment

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