Ecology and Levels of the Environment

All the different types of organisms living in a certain area

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Organism

• Population

The most specific (least complex) level of organization within an ecosystem

• Community

• Population

• Organism

• Ecosystem

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Jacob is going out to his grandparents farm. On the farm is a stream that he likes to fish at. When he is fishing he sees many differernt speacies of fish as well as maple and oak trees and dragonflies. What Jacob is seeing is an example of what level of organization?

• organism

• population

• community

• ecosystem

All the alligators in a swamp are an example of a(n) _______________.

• organism

• community

• population

• group

Which term refers to the job an organism plays within its environment?

• biosphere

• ecology

• habitat

• niche

A duck, a dragonfly, a morel mushroom and a bobcat are all examples of...

• organisms.

• populations.

• communties.

• ecosystems.

What is Ecology?

• The chemistry of Life

• The study of money

• The study of interactions between living and nonliving things in the environment.

• All of the above.

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Which definition best fits the term biosphere?

• A group or organisms of the same species that live in the same area and interact with one another.

• A group of many populations (of different species) that live and interact with one another

• A group of populations of many different species that live and interact with both one another and all of the abiotic factors in their environment.

• A set of different ecosystems that are connected by similar geographic features and share the same or similar climate.

• Anywhere on earth that life exists.

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Which definition best fits the term habitat?

• The study of the interactions between animals and their environment

• Factors in the environment that are considered not alive

• the environment in which an organism lives.

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

• The role a species plays in the ecosystem.

Which definition best fits the term niche?

• The study of the interactions between animals and their environment

• Factors in the environment that are considered not alive

• the environment in which an organism lives.

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

• The role a species plays in the ecosystem.