Unit 1 Quiz

Order the levels of ecological organization in order from smallest to largest.

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Organism

• Biome

• Community

Match each word to its correct description.

• Population

• An individual living thing

• Organism

• Group of the same species living in one area

• Ecosystem

• Major regional or global community of organism

• Community

• All the biotic and abiotic factors of an environment

• Biome

• A group of different species living together in one area

Circle 3 biotic factors

Water, oxygen and sunlight are all _________ factors.

Which graph portrays the relationship between the mice population and the carrying capacity?

• Graph 1

• Graph 2

• Graph 3

• Graph 4

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Label which graph represents a logistic growth model and which graph represents an exponential growth model.

a

b

Logistic

Exponential

Which statement regarding the graph below is a true statement?

• The population of arctic foxes increased between 1960 - 1969.

• The maximum number of snowshoe hares was 80,000.

• The highest population of arctic foxes was in year 1978.

• In 1945, there were 60,000 snowshoe hares.

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Aphids are tiny insects that live on and eat the leaves of plants, removing vital nutrients from the plants. This relationship would best be described as...

• Predation

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

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What type of symbiosis? Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers. The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.

• Predation

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

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A parasite wiping out an entire species of trees is an example of density _ factor.

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