2. With Miss Fallentine

3. 100 200 400 300 400 Section 1Section 2Section 3 Test Questions 300 200 400 200 100 500 100

4. Row 1, Col 1 The ______ part of the environment includes all of the physical factors, such as water, soil, light and temperature. What is abiotic?

5. 1,2 “Nature’s recyclers” are ___________? What are decomposers?

6. 1,3 What is a close, long-term association between two or more species? What is symbiosis?

7. 1,4 A _________ represents the many energy pathways possible in an ecosystem. What is food web?

8. 2,1 A family of Marsh crab are considered a __________, or a group of the same species living together in the same area. What is a population ?

9. 2,2 The environment in which an organism lives is its _______, and the role the organism plays in an ecosystem is its _______. What is its habitat and its niche?

10. 2,3 Name the three groups of symbiosis relationships? What are mutualism, commensalism, & parasitism?

11. 2,4 When a resource organisms need to live becomes scarce, that resource is said to be a _______. What is limited factor?

12. 3,1 A _________ is made up of a community of organisms and its abiotic environment. What is an ecosystem?

13. 3,2 What is at the bottom, or base, of the energy pyramid? What are producers?

14. 3,3 The Tomato Hornworm is the ________ and the young wasps are the __________. What is the host and parasites?

15. 3,4 Leopard seals are what kind of consumers? What are carnivores?

16. 4,1 What kind of scientist studies the interactions between organisms and their environment? What is an ecologist?

17. 4,2 Name the four different consumers. What are carnivores, herbivores, omnivores and scavengers?

18. 4,3 What is an organism called that carries pollen from flower to flower? What is a pollinator ?

19. 4,4 The old adage, “birds of a feather flock together” describes which level of environmental organization? What is a population?

20. 1,5 How many “Levels of Environmental Organization” are there? What is five?

21. 2,5 What is the main source of energy for almost all living things? What is sunlight?

22. 3,5 Name the four main ways that species and individuals affect each other? What are competition, predators & prey, symbiotic relationships and coevolution?

23. 4,5 The largest population of an organism that a given environment can support over time is known as the environment’s __________. What is carrying capacity?