Unit 6 Vocabulary: Levels of Organization

Select the correct order of levels of ecosystem organization from smallest to largest.

• Organism -> Community -> Population -> Ecosystem -> Biome -> Biosphere

• Community -> Organism -> Population -> Ecosystem -> Biome -> Biosphere

• Community -> Ecosystem -> Biome -> Biosphere -> Population -> Organism

• Organism -> Population -> Community -> Ecosystem -> Biome -> Biosphere

• Biome

What is an organism?

• an individual living thing

• group of different species living in one area

• group of the same species living in one area

• all living and nonliving things living together

What is a population?

• includes all organisms and non-living things (climate, soil, water, rocks)

• group of different species that live together in one area

• group of the same species that lives in one area

• large, geographically defined regions with similar climate, encompassing multiple ecosystems

What is a community?

• group of different species that live together in one area

• group of the same species that live in one area

• includes all the organisms, climate, and non-living things

• all living and nonliving things living together

What is an ecosystem?

• group of the same species that lives in one area

• includes all the organisms as well as the climate, soil, water, rocks, and other non-living things

• a major regional or global community of organisms characterized by the climate conditions and the type of plant communities that thrive there

• all living and nonliving things living together including the earth’s crust and atmosphere supporting all life

What is a biome?

• a major regional or global community of organisms characterized by the climate conditions and the type of plant communities that thrive there

• includes all the organisms, climate, soil, water, rocks, and other non-living things

• all living and nonliving things living together including the earth’s crust and atmosphere supporting all life

• an individual living thing

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is a biosphere?

• group of the same species that lives in one area

• includes all the organisms as well as the climate, soil, water, rocks, and other non-living things

• group of different species that live together in one area

• all living and nonliving things together including the earth's crust and atmosphere supporting all life

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Match the level of organization with the examples

• population

• deer, coyotes, squirrels, birds, and plants that live in one forest

• organism

• deer

• community

• all the deer that live in one forest

• ecosystem

• deer, coyotes, squirrels, birds, plants, climate, soil, water, rocks in one forest

What is a habitat?

• the environment where an organism lives

• group of different species living together

• group of the same species living together

• the way an organism fits or plays a role into an ecosystem

What is a niche?

• the environment where an organism lives

• group of different species living together

• group of the same species living together

• the way an organism fits or plays a role into an ecological community or ecosystem