Bio 1 Ecology TEST 2025

Emma is learning about how matter moves in nature. She wonders what happens when matter cycles through ecosystems:

• It is reused and recycled

• It moves only one way

• It disappears

• It increases endlessly

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Sophia visits a national park and observes many different types of plants, animals, and insects living together. What does this variety of life in the area represent?

• Number of plants only

• Variety of life in an area

• Number of predators

• Energy in an ecosystem

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Kai is curious about how plants help clean the air. He learns that there is a process by which carbon is removed from the atmosphere by plants. What is this process called?

• Respiration

• Erosion

• Decomposition

• Photosynthesis

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Grace observes an abandoned field over several years and notices that different plants and animals start to appear and replace each other over time. What is this process called?

• A competition for food

• The process of change in an ecosystem over time

• A type of pollution

• A form of extinction

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Evelyn is learning about how forests work. She wonders what happens to matter, like leaves and branches, in the forest ecosystem. What happens to matter in ecosystems?

• Not important

• Constantly lost

• Destroyed

• Recycled

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Noah is studying a population of rabbits in a large field. He observes that the number of rabbits keeps increasing rapidly over time. Under which condition will the rabbit population grow exponentially?

• Predators increase

• Competition is high

• Resources are unlimited

• Resources are limited

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Jackson lives in a town where people use more resources each year than the Earth can naturally replace. What is this situation called?

• Resources use exceeds Earth’s capacity

• Population declines

• Resources increase

• Pollution decreases

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If a herd of deer in a forest exceeds the forest's carrying capacity, it will likely:

• Crash or stabilize

• Become extinct immediately

• Continue growing

• Evolve faster

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Hannah is studying a park and wants to understand which level of organization includes all the living things, like plants and animals, as well as non-living things, such as water and rocks, in that area. Which level of organization is she focusing on?

• Biome

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

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Rohan is learning about how plants grow in his school garden. He discovers that the nitrogen cycle is vital for:

• Energy flow

• Photosynthesis

• Heat production

• Plant protein formation

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