Environmental Interactions

Various species in an area with the abiotic things on which they depend to live is a(n)

• Niche

• ecosystem

• community

Abiotic things affect an organisms ability to survive and reproduce.

• True

• False

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pH balance, salinity and minerals are considered

• abiotic

• biotic

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Which example shows an organism using an abiotic component of its habitat?

• a crab eating sea plankton

• a beaver packing mud for a home

• a bee visiting a flower for pollen

Poisons such as DDT build up in lakes and streams due to runoff. Then they enter the food chain. Once in living organisms, the poisons are not broken down and their concentrations increase as they are passed along the food chain.

Which term best describes this ecological phenomenon?

• global warming

• loss of biodiversity

• biological magnification

• loss of genetic diversity

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Which type of science seeks to understand how the Earth works to determine the interactions between humans and the environment?

• Earth Science

• Environmentalism

• Ecology

• Environmental Science

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Environmental science is the study of the interaction of humans with the environment. Which of these would NOT be included as part of the environment?

• What the soil is made of.

• Animals and plants in the region and surrounding areas.

• The average temperature, wind, precipitation, and other climate factors.

• All of these would be considered part of the environment.

Meat eating reptiles depend on what biotic factor to survive?

• burrow of sandy soil to live

• water to drink

• small animals that live in the same habitat

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Choose the list of biotic things.

• mushrooms, soil, trees, rocks

• ferns, mushrooms, worms, bacteria

• worms, dirt, ferns, sunlight

A plant or animal in an ecosystem is a(n)

• organism

• community

• population

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