Environmental Science Ecology

Water temperature would be an example of ...

• a biotic factor.
• an abiotic factor.

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A collection of organisms that belong to different populations but all live in the same area and interact with one another.

• Population
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Ecosphere

A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.

• Population
• Community
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

Which of the following best describes a community?

• sharks, groupers, anemones and shrimp on a coral reef
• decorator crabs on the seafloor
• loggerhead sea turtles in Atlantic
• prairie grassland in Wyoming

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Which is the thin layer of the earth that supports life and also the largest level of ecological organization?

• A community
• The biosphere
• A population
• The biome

_{Match the picture with the group/term that it belongs to.}
Rabbit

• Organism
• Population
• Community
• Ecosystem

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A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________

• ecosystem
• food web
• environment
• population

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Which of the following is a herbivore?

• cricket
• frog
• hawk
• shrew

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Where do all life forms get their energy?

• Earth's Core
• Water
• Plants
• The Sun

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What does a food chain represent?

• How all living organisms within a habitat are connected.
• All of the things that a particular animal eats.
• How plants create their own food.
• A single path of energy transfer within a habitat.

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