Pop and Res Vocab Quiz

What is the term for when something becomes different over time?

• Reproduction

• Change

• Competition

• Stability

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What is competition in an ecosystem?

• Two or more populations using the same resource

• A population that eats another population

• A scientist studying organisms

• A group of atoms joined together

What is a consumer population?

• A group of the same type of organism

• A population that is eaten by another

• A population that eats organisms from another population

• A small part meant to show the whole

Who studies the interactions of organisms with each other and their environment?

• Ecologist

• Biologist

• Physicist

• Chemist

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What does an ecosystem include?

• Only living things

• Only nonliving things

• Only plants and animals

• All living and nonliving things interacting in an area

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What is energy?

• The ability to make things move or change

• A type of organism

• A molecule that stores information

• A group of atoms

What is an energy storage molecule?

• A molecule that organisms can use to release energy

• A molecule that forms the structure of cells

• A molecule that is part of the cell membrane

• A molecule that carries genetic information

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What does a food web show?

• The number of organisms in an ecosystem

• The reproduction rate of organisms

• The energy flow in an ecosystem

• What eats what in an ecosystem

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What is glucose?

• A type of fat

• A type of nucleic acid

• A molecule made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms

• A type of protein

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What is an indirect effect?

• An effect that has no cause

• A direct cause and effect relationship

• A single effect from multiple causes

• The result of one cause leading to multiple effects