Living Environment Ecology

What do you call water that flows on Earth’s surface from high elevation to low elevation?

• Clouds

• Precipitation

• Runoff

• Groundwater

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

___  the branch of science that studies how organisms interact with one another & with their environment.

• ecology

• geology

• astronomy

• chemistry

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

___ is when one organism (a predator) eats another organism (the prey).

• competition

• cooperation

• predation

• symbiosis

Which of the following shows the levels of organization in order from the smallest to the largest?

• organism, population, community, ecosystem

• ecosystem, community, population, organism

• population, organism, community, ecosystem

• organism, community, population, ecosystem

___ is when living things of the same species work together to survive. (like a pack of wolves)

• competition

• cooperation

• predation

• symbiosis

___ is when living things struggle against one another to get resources – like food, water, space, mates, etc.

• competition

• cooperation

• predation

• symbiosis

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

In an ecosystem, everything is ___.

• connected to everything else

• separate from each other

• alive

• must eat other organisms to survive

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

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The diagram below shows a list of ___ of a polar bear that help it survive in its cold, snowy habitat.

• adaptations

• habitats

• resources

• biomes

A ___ is the place that an organism lives - its natural home.

• habitat

• community

• population

• ecology

A ___ is word that means "a specific type of living thing" (like a polar bear).

• species

• organism

• population

• animal

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2