Intro to Ecology Quiz

What is the study of interactions between organisms and their environment?

• biology

• ecology

• anthropology

• chemistry

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8.L.3

8.L.3.1

Which is causing the MOST SIGNIFICANT changes to the environment?

• mass extinction

• exploding human population

• damage to the ozone layer

• climate change

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8.L.3.1

8.L.3

True or False: Latitude has an effect on regional climate.

• True

• False

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8.L.3

8.L.3.1

Place each level in order from broadest to most specific:

• communities

• organisms

• populations

• biosphere

• ecosystems

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8.L.3

Match the following:

• the broadest level of organization

• Communities

• simplest level of ecological organizatio

• organism

• all the living organisms in an area

• Biosphere

• all the members of a single species

• Ecosystems

• Includes all biotic and abiotic factors

• population

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8.L.3

What is the theme of ecology?

• Dependence

• Disturbance

• interconnectedness

• deselection

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8.L.3

All the living factors in an ecosystem:

• biotic

• abiotic

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

All the non-living factors in an ecosystem:

• biotic

• abiotic

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8.L.3.1

What is the process an organism goes through when adjusting to a change in an abiotic factor?

• regulation

• fluctuation

• acclimation

• deregulation

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8.L.3.1

Match the following

• heterotroph

• must get energy from other living things

• regulator

• cannot regulate internal conditions

• autotroph

• Use energy to control internal conditions

• conformer

• capable of producing their own food

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8.L.3.2