Climate and Ecosystems

Which definition best fits the term niche?

• The study of the interactions between animals and their environment

• Factors in the environment that are considered not alive

• the environment in which an organism lives.

• Factors in the environment that are considered living or the remains of living things

• The role a species plays in the ecosystem.

Long-term patterns of weather in any part of the world is referred to as which of the following?

• Weather

• Climate

• Precipitation

• Seasons

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Water temperature would be an example of ...

• a biotic factor.

• an abiotic factor.

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A collection of organisms that belong to different populations but all live in the same area and interact with one another.

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Ecosphere

A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving components of the environment.

• Population

• Community

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

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Nonliving factor that affects an ecosystem...

• biotic factor

• abiotic factor

• food chain 

• biome

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Living factors or organisms that affect an ecosystem...

• abiotic factors

• species

• trophic level

• biotic factors

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What are the abiotic factors in this image?

• water, sunlight, dirt

• birds, plants, predators

• water, plants, parasites

• oxygen, water, grasses

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Which of the following is the most simple level of ecological organization?

• A community

• An organism

• A population

• An ecosystem

Which level of ecological organization is composed of many similar ecosystems with the same climate and geographic locations?

• community

• population

• biome

• biosphere