Ecological levels of Organization

If we have a group of organisms of the same species, like a group of platypi, living together and interacting with one another, what ecological level of organization do we have?

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Community

• Biosphere

When multiple populations of different species are together and interacting with one another, we say those populations form a(n) _______.

• ecosystem

• population

• community

• biome

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

If we have multiple populations together in the same place at the same time interacting with each other, but we now add in the ABIOTIC factors that they interact with, as well, we now have what is called a(n)

• ecosystem

• community

• population

• biosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Abiotic represents

• living things

• non-living things

• once living things

An individual living thing or a basic living system capable of carrying on all life processes that is made of at least one cell is a(n) ______.

• Population

• Community

• Organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

A pride of twenty African lions live and hunt together on the Serengeti. WHAT ECOLOGICAL LEVEL OF ORGANIZATION IS REPRESENTED BY THE LIONS IN THIS SCENARIO?

• ecosystem

• community

• population

• organism

When a hiker comes upon a stream, she observes rocks and pebbles, gas bubbles in the stream, some crayfish, small bushes on the banks, a swarm of midge flies, and schools of minnows in the water. She looks up in the sky and appreciates the warmth of the sun on her face.
WHAT IS THE ECOLOGICAL LEVEL OF ORGANIZATION BEING ADDRESSED?

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Community