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Living Things & the Environment

Total questions: 5

Worksheet time: 3mins

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1.

Limiting factors cause the sizes of populations to...

a)

stop increasing or increase

b)

stop increasing or decrease

c)

stop decreasing or increase

d)

stop decreasing or decrease

2.

A forest ecosystem has different levels of organization. Which arrangement orders the levels of organization from the largest level (with the most living things) to the smallest level (with the fewest living things).

a)

community, ecosystem, population, organism

b)

ecosystem, community, population, organism

c)

organism, population, community, ecosystem

d)

organism, community, population, ecosystem

3.

Groundhogs inhabiting a meadow environment drink water and rely on plants, including clover, for food. Which of the following terms describe BOTH the water and the clover that the groundhogs consume? Choose the TWO that apply.

a)

limiting factors

b)

abiotic factors

c)

biotic factors

d)

resources

4.

The American Plains bison is a grassland species that eats mostly grasses. By the late 1800s, hunting came close to causing this animal to disappear from the western United States. In the early 1900s, landowners and the U.S. government took steps to save the bison. The graph shows data collected in northern Yellowstone National Park between 1902 and 1915. What information does the y-axis values on the graph represent?

a)

population size

b)

community size

c)

species birth rate

d)

population density

5.

The American Plains bison is a grassland species that eats mostly grasses. By the late 1800s, hunting came close to causing this animal to disappear from the western United States. In the early 1900s, landowners and the U.S. government took steps to save the bison. The graph shows data collected in northern Yellowstone National Park between 1902 and 1915. Which of the following events could have caused the change shown in the graph? Choose the TWO that apply.

a)

natural disaster

b)

decrease in food

c)

increase in shelter

d)

departure of bison

e)

decrease in hunting