Ecosystem Review

Which of the following are abiotic factors in an ecosystem?

• water, oxygen and carbon dioxide, soil, temperature, sun

• sun, plants, animals, air and temperature

• temperature, dogs, cats, air and sun

• sun, temperature, trees, fungus

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How many producers are in this food web?

• 3

• 4

• 2

• 1

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Which level of organization from complex to simple (largest to smallest) is correct?

• Biosphere, Ecosystem, Community, Population, Organism

• Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biosphere

• Ecosystem, Community, Population, Organism, Biosphere

• Biosphere, Community, Ecosystem, Population, Organism

Is wind a biotic or abiotic factor?

• biotic

• abiotic

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Are consumers biotic or abiotic factors?

• biotic

• abiotic

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Limiting factors are sometimes helpful because they can keep the population from getting too large.

• True
• False

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A snake is eaten by a hawk. The hawk is the _______.

• prey
• parasite
• predator
• all of these

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Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are  __________.

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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If the population of a certain predator increases, there is often _______ its prey

• a decrease the population of
• an increase of the population of 
• great news for its prey of
• no  impact found on

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Ecosystem . . .

• All living things and nonliving components of the environment (water, air, soil, light) in a particular area.

• The environments that support life (soil, bodies of water and inner atmosphere)

• the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.

• the role and position a species has in its environment; how it meets its needs for food and shelter, how it survives, and how it reproduces.

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