EXAM - TEST

An ecosystem is made up of ______________________ and non-living things.

What does it mean for a population to be stable?

True or False: a system can be stable even as things are being added to and removed from it.

• True

• False

A _________________________ population is the population that gets eaten by others.

What is a consumer population?

If owls are eating mice, what is the resource population? _________________________ What is the consumer population? ________________________

What is the best definition of an organism?

• Many individuals of the same species living in the same area.

• All of the living and nonliving things in a particular area.

• An individual plant, animal, fungus, or single-celled life form.

• A creature that is large enough to see without using a microscope.

Why do organisms need energy storage molecules?

True or False: The less energy storage molecules available to a population, the more the organisms within the population can reproduce.

• True

• False

If the resource population decreases, then the consumer population will ___________________________.