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Ecology: Section 1 Vocab

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The scientific discipline in which the relationships among living organisms and the interaction have with their environments.

a)

Ecology

b)

Chemistry

c)

Physics

d)

Physical Science

2.

Biosphere

a)

The portion of Earth that supports life.

b)

The entire solar system

c)

The earth and the moon

d)

The areas of the Earth under water

3.

The living factors in an organism’s environment.

a)

air

b)

biotic

c)

abiotic

d)

life

4.

Abiotic Factor

a)

The living factors in an organism’s environment.

b)

The factors in an organisms environment that it can control

c)

Only the factors built by humans in an organisms environment

d)

The nonliving factors in an organism’s environment.

5.

Individual organisms of the same species that share the same geographic location at the same time.

a)

Biome

b)

Population

c)

Habitat

d)

Niche

6.

Biological

community

a)

A group of individuals that occupy the same geographic area at the same time.

b)

A group of interacting populations that occupy the same geographic area at the same time.

c)

All the abiotic factors in a pond

7.

Is a biological community and all of the abiotic factors that affect it.

a)

population

b)

Neighborhood

c)

Ecosystem

d)

niche

8.

A large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and similar types of communities.

a)

Earth

b)

Biome

c)

Biosphere

d)

nice

9.

Habitat

a)

The role or position that an organism has in its environment.

b)

When more than one organism uses a resource at the same time.

c)

An area where an organism lives

d)

Individual organisms of the same species that share the same geographic location at the same time.

10.

The act of one organism pursuing and consuming another organism.

a)

predation

b)

lunch

c)

food web

d)

parasite

11.

Symbiosis

a)

The relationship between two or more organism that live closely together and benefit from each other.

b)

The close relationship that exists when two or more or more species live together.

c)

A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is neither helped nor harmed.

d)

A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism

12.

The relationship between two or more organism that live closely together and benefit from each other.

a)

mutualism

b)

symbiosis

c)

Commensalism

d)

Parasitism

13.

Commensalism

a)

A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is neither helped nor harmed

b)

A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism

c)

The relationship between two or more organism that live closely together and benefit from each other.

d)

The act of one organism pursuing and consuming another organism.

14.

A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism

a)

symbiosis

b)

Mutualism

c)

Parasitism

d)

Commensalism

15.

Explain the difference between abiotic and biotic factors in the ecosystem. Provide one example of each.

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