Communities and Ecosystem Dynamics

The actual place an organism lives is its

• house

• habitat

• ecosystem

• environment

True or False: There are physical and biological environmental factors that affect which organisms can live in a habitat

• True

• False

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Habitats where really small organisms live is called a

• microenvironment

• microhabitat

• microbiome

• a and b

A microhabitat has its own set of environmental conditions called its

• climate

• macroclimate

• microclimate

• small biome

Microbes in the soil have an important job. What is it

• Decomposers

• giving nutrients to plants

• Absorption

• A and b

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The variety of environmental conditions which an organism survives and reproduces is called

• adaptation

• microbiome

• tolerance

• optimum range

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These conditions enable organisms to find enough energy and nutrients to maintain homeostasis, to grow and reproduce

• adaptation

• microclimate

• Tolerance

• Optimum Range

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If conditions fall above or below the optimum range an organisms will experience

• Death

• stress

• adaptation

• tolerance

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Where an organism lives and what it does for a living, including how they interact with biotic and abiotic factors is a species

• habitat

• ecosystem

• niche

• community

Any necessity essential for live is called

• food

• water

• a resource

• shelter

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