Biotic/Abiotic
Ecosystems
Answers Starting in "A"
Measuring
Causes and Impacts of Habitat Loss
100

Any living thing

What is an organism

100
What is the smallest group in an ecosystem
What is an organism
100
Ways animals or animals act or how their body changes to help them survive in their environment
What are adaptations
100

Organisms that do not move about 

Sedentary organisms

100

The process by which a species or other named group ceases to exist on Earth or in a named area

What is extinction?

200

Which is abiotic? A squirrel, two raccoons, a snake, a rock, a palm tree

What is a rock

200
Describe a population
What is all of one kind of a species that lives in an ecosystem
200
This biome is located on the poles of the globe and the community is made up of penguins, permafrost, and birds
What is the Arctic
200

Square frames of wire usually 0.25 m squared

What are quadrats?
200

2 causes of habitat loss and extinction

Any 2: drainage of wetlands/intensive agricultural practices/deforestation

300

Which of the following is an example of a biotic thing: a feather, water, a beetle, rocks, a waterfall

What is a beetle

300
Describe what would make up the community of coral reef
What is clown fish, jelly fish, seaweed, etc.
300
Which state, in the United States, is covered mostly by desert?
What is Arizona
300

The acronym for the scale that the abundance of an organism

What is ACFOR?

300

The stable community characteristic of an area that persists as long as the climate does not change

What is a climax community?

400
Three of the signs of life of living things
What are moving, growing and changing, responding, needing food, and getting rid of waste.
400
Describe the difference between a habitat and a community
What is a habitat is the background of an ecosystem- the living plants and nonliving things- no animals. A community is all the living things (plants and animals) in an ecosystem
400
Which type of living thing could adapt by hunting at night or shedding its coat
What is animals
400

To see the change of a species along a gradient

What is a transect?

400

List 3 impacts of deforestation

1. Habitat loss

2. Soil erosion and desertification

3. Climate change 

4. Loss of biodiversity and genetic depletion 

500
In order to survive, all living things need:
What is space, shelter, air (oxygen), food, and water
500
Describe an ecosystem
What is an area of land and all the living and nonliving things that interact within it.
500
Another way to say plants and animals need oxygen, is saying they need...
What is air
500

A scientist wants to study the type of insects living in a grassy field from one end of the road to the end. The field is too large to count every insect, so the student needs a sampling method. Which is most appropriate?

Quadrats

Transects

Pooters

Also: Random or systematic

Answer: 

Pooters (collect insects safely) + systematic (works if the scientist wants to take samples at regular intervals to observe patterns in distribution.)

500

List the following in order of biggest to smallest in terms of causing deforestation: Logging, Subsistence farming, Pasture, Commercial farming, Other


Hint: 2 parts are equal.

Answers: 

1. Pasture 

2. Subsistence/commercial

3. Logging

4. Other

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