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Levels of Biological Organization

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 32mins

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Class
Date
1.

A collection of living organisms that belong to different populations but all live in the same area and interact with one another is a...

a)

Population

b)

Ecosystem

c)

Community

d)

Ecosphere

2.

Non-living factor that affects an ecosystem...

a)

biotic factor

b)

abiotic factor

c)

food chain

d)

biome

3.

What are the biotic factors in this image?

a)

sunlight, elephants, grasses

b)

sunlight, water, air

c)

elephants, plants, trees

d)

elephants, clouds, grasses

4.

Which of the following best describes a community?

a)

sharks, groupers, anemones and shrimp on a coral reef

b)

decorator crabs on the seafloor

c)

loggerhead sea turtles in Atlantic

d)

prairie grassland in Wyoming

5.

What is a community?

a)

One individual of a species

b)

a group of individuals living together in an area

c)

all the different populations living together in an area

d)

different communities and their physical environment

6.

What is an ecosystem?

a)

One individual of a species

b)

a group of individuals of a species that live in the same area

c)

all the different species in an area

d)

all the communities in an area and the physical environment

7.

What is a biome?

a)

one individual of a species

b)

all the different populations of species that live together in an area

c)

all the biological communities and their physical environment

d)

a group of similar ecosystems that share similar climates and animals/plants

8.

What level of ecological organization does the bird represent?

a)

Organism

b)

Population

c)

Community

d)

Ecosystem

9.
Which is the thin layer of the earth that supports life and also the largest level of ecological organization?
a)
A community
b)
The biosphere
c)
A population
d)
The biome
10.
A duck, a dragonfly, a morel mushroom and a bobcat are all examples of...
a)
organisms.
b)
populations.
c)
communties.
d)
ecosystems.
11.

All of the different BIOTIC organisms found in the same area.

a)

Organism

b)

Population

c)

Community

d)

Ecosystem

12.

Which example best illustrates the difference between a community and a population?

a)

All the people in a town would be a community; all the people in a country would be a population

b)

The two terms are interchangeable, a population IS a community.

c)

All the people in a town would be a community; all their cattle would be a population.

d)

All the different animals in a national park would be a community; all of the brown bears in the park would be a population.

13.

Which of the following is/are considered biotic factors?

a)

Chicken

b)

Water

c)

Wind

d)

Mushroom

e)

Temperature

14.

Which definition best fits the term ecosystem?

a)

A group or organisms of the same species that live in the same area and interact with one another.

b)

A group of many populations (of different species) that live and interact with one another

c)

A group of populations of many different species that live and interact with both one another and all of the abiotic factors in their environment.

d)

A set of different ecosystems that acer connected by similar geographic features and share the same or similar climate.

e)

Anywhere on earth that life exists.

15.

Where all life on Earth exists; encompassing all of Earth’s ecosystems

a)

biosphere

b)

biome

c)

ecosystem

d)

community