Science Quiz September

Question 1

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 1

All the things that interact in a particular area

Question 2

What is a habitat?

Answer 2

A provider for organisms

Question 3

What are the living parts of an ecosystem?

Answer 3

Biotic factors

Question 4

What are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem?

Answer 4

Abiotic factors

Question 5

What does a habitat supply?

Answer 5

Water, shelter, food, carbon dioxide

Question 6

What are species?

Answer 6

A group of similar organisms that reproduce offspring

Question 7

What is population?

Answer 7

All the members of one species in a particular area

Question 8

What is a community?

Answer 8

All the different populations that live in one area

Question 9

What is ecology?

Answer 9

The study of how living things interact with each other

Question 10

What are the abiotic factors?

Answer 10

Water, sunlight, temperature, oxygen, soil

Question 11

What is population density?

Answer 11

The number of individuals in a specific area

Question 12

What is direct observation?

Answer 12

A one-by one count of population

Question 13

What is indirect observation?

Answer 13

Counting a population by evidence of the species being in a certain place

Question 14

What is an estimate?

Answer 14

A reasonable approximation of population

Question 15

What is mark and recapture?

Answer 15

A population counting technique where you capture a number of species, mark, and release them.

Question 16

What is birth rate?

Answer 16

The amount of births in a population at a certain amount of time

Question 17

What is death rate?

Answer 17

The amount of deaths in a population at a certain amount of time

Question 18

What is immigration?

Answer 18

Immigration is moving into a population

Question 19

What is Emmigration?

Answer 19

Emmigration is leaving a population

Question 20

What is a limited factor?

Answer 20

An environmental factor that prevents a population from increasing

Question 21

What is carrying capacity?

Answer 21

The largest population that an area could hold

Question 22

What is adaptation?

Answer 22

A behavior and traits that allow a species to survive in a habitat

Question 23

What is natural species?

Answer 23

Species that have naturally evolved in an area

Question 24

What is a niche?

Answer 24

How a species makes his living

Question 25

What is competition?

Answer 25

The struggle between organisms for natural resources

Question 26

What is symbiosis?

Answer 26

A close relationship with species that benefits at least 1 of 2 species

Question 27

What is predation?

Answer 27

An interaction where a predator hunts a prey

Question 28

How can adaptation help an animal?

Answer 28

Their adaptation could be a way to scare off predators or they can use physicality to defend themselves

Question 29

What are the three different interactions between species?

Answer 29

Competition, symbiosis, and predation

Question 30

What are the three different types of symbiosis?

Answer 30

Mutualism, commenalism, and parasitism

Question 31

What will help a walking stick escape predators?

Answer 31

It’s close resemblance to a twig will make predators believe it is a twig.

Question 32

How is symbiosis similar to predation?

Answer 32

Parasitism, a form of symbiosis, is similar to predation. An organism is benefited, yet one is harmed. But in parasitism, the parasite lives inside the host, but in predation, the predator consumes the prey.

Question 33

What are prey?

Answer 33

Prey are organisms that are consumed in predation

Question 34

What are predators?

Answer 34

Predators are organisms that are killers in predation?

Question 35

What are 5 types of defense strategies?

Answer 35

Camouflage, protective covering, warning coloring, mimicry, and false coloring

Question 36

What is a parasite?

Answer 36

A parasite is an organism that lives inside of a host in parasitism

Question 37

What is a host?

Answer 37

A host is an organism who is harmed in parasitism?