Chapter 2 Study Guide

What is an organism?

• A type of food
• A type of animal

• A type of plant

• A living thing

What is an ecosystem?

• A type of animal species and the food they eat

• A group of living and nonliving things and their environment

• A type of plant species and how it makes its own food

• A type of geographical area and the people who live there

What is a consumer?

• An organism that is eaten for energy

• An organism that eats food

• An organism that only eats plants

• An organism that makes its own food

What is a food chain?

• A sequence of how organisms use other organisms as food

• A chain made of food
• A popular restaurant chain
• A type of jewelry worn by chefs

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What is a food web?

• A type of spider web

• A system of connected food chains

• A sequence of how organisms use other organisms as food

• Another term for food chain

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What is a community?

• The interaction of various populations living in the same environment

• A group of friends

• A group of animals who do not try to eat each other

• The interaction of various populations to find food

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What is a population?

• The total number of one kind of animal living in the same environment

• The total number of people living in a city
• The total number of animals in a zoo
• The total number of trees in a forest

What is prey?

• A type of bird
• An animal that hunts other animals
• An animal hunted by another animal for food

• A type of plant

What is adaptation?

• A change in appearance or behavior that organisms make to survive in an environment

• A change in diet to keep more animals from being eaten

• A change in environment

• A change in the size of an animals in order to move up the food chain

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What is survival?

• The act of continuing to live

• A type of game mode in video games
• A popular television series
• A type of food

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