Ecological Communities

A community is a level in organization that is....

• made of populations of different species that live in the same place and interact.

• a single individual species of organisms that are similar.

• all the individual organisms of the same species in the same place.

A prairie dog, a hawk, and a badger all are members of the same ________________.

• niche

• community

• species

• population

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

Choose the correct levels of Organization from lowest to highest...

• population, community, ecosystem, organism

• organism, population, community, ecosystem

• organism, population, ecosystem, community

• population, organism, community, ecosystem

The community of a pond is made up of all the...

• abiotic factors in the water

• resources organisms need

• habitats in and around the wate

• populations of fish, insects, and other living organisms

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The simplest grouping of more than one kind of organism in the biosphere is

• a population.

• a community.

• a species.

• an ecosystem

All the living communities in an area PLUS the abiotic factors.

• population

• ecosystem

• biome

• habitat

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

• ecosystem

• community

• food chain

• biodiversity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Which biological level contains a community and all the abiotic surroundings?

• population

• community

• ecosystem

• biome

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The living or once living parts of an organism's environment are called its...

• community

• habitat

• biotic factors

• abiotic factors