Population Ecology 2

What is the study of ecosystems called?

• Ecology
• Interdependence
• Abiotic factor
• Community

An example of an ecosystem would be...

• An ocean
• All of the fish in the ocean.
• All of the great white sharks in the ocean.
• A great white shark.

An example of a community within an ecosystem would be...

• A farm
• The animals on the farm.
• The pigs on a farm.
• A pig.

An example of a population within an ecosystem would be...

• a tree in the park
• the insects living on a tree.
• the bees that live on the tree.
• a bee.

Which is an example of an abiotic factor?

• Plants
• Bacteria
• Water
• Animals

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which of the following lists the hierarchy of ecosystems?

• DNA, nucleus, cell
• ecology, competition, niche
• organism, population, community
• paramecium, life, organism

The principle of competitive exclusion is when two species competing for the same resource...

• Can't maintain stable population sizes.
• Ultimately find new resources.
• Become extinct.
• Eventually starve.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Competition among members of a population is called:

• interspecific
• competition
• intraspecific
• ecology

Competition between members of two or more species is called:

• interspecific
• intraspecific
• competition
• ecology

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The feeding job or role of an organism is it's

• contribution
• niche
• ecosystem
• community