Ecology Organism Population

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

• competition

• cooperation

• predation

• symbiosis

In an ecosystem, everything is ___.

• connected to everything else

• separate from each other

• alive

• must eat other organisms to survive

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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

A ___ is all of the organisms of the same kind in a place.

• organism

• population

• community

• ecosystem

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

• habitat

• community

• population

• ecology

An ___ is any feature or trait that helps an organism survive.

• adaptation

• resource

• habitat

• ecology

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What is ecology?

• The study of rocks and their interaction with the landscape

• The study of the interaction of

  eco in the ology.

• The study of organisms and their interactions with the environment

• The study of how the interaction between people and their environment.

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What is the definition of an organism?

• A group of organisms of one type that live in the same area.

• Populations of different species living in a defined area.

• The interaction of living and non-living things.

• A single individual of a particular species.

What is a population?

• All the organisms on Earth and where they live.

• Group of organisms of one type that live in the same area.

• Groups of different species that live in a defined area.

• Parts of an ecosystem that are living or use to be living.

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An ecosystem is___________________.

• The interaction of coffee and creamer in my coffee cup.

• The interaction of nonliving things in a particular environment.

• The interaction of living things in a particular environment.

• The interaction of living and nonliving things in a particular environment.