Gr. 9 Ecosystems Unit Review

What are two types of pollution?

Organism that lives on or in and feeds on a host organism is called...

A series of plants and animals in which an organism is a part of and energy is transferred.

Animals that only eat plants.

Animals that hunt and kill other animals for food.

Animals that only eat other animals

All non-living and living things in a particular area or environment

The maximum population size of a particular species that a given ecosystem can sustain

What is therelationship called when one organism kills and eats another organism?

Food chains start with a

All of the following are limiting factors in the ocean except...

What is the name of the relationship between two organisms benefiting from each other?

Plants produce food (sugar) from carbon dioxide in the air and water.

Animals that cannot make their own food so they eat other plants/animals.

In the desert you might find a community of...

What do these factors have in common: temperature, water, soil, air and sunlight?

The arrows in a food web or food chain point to the...

All the white-tailed deer in the same area of a forest are...

Animals that eat both plants and animals.

The portion of the Earth that supports life.

What plant and animal would you find in an Ocean?

All of the following are limiting factors in a deciduous forest except...

Biotic factors are...

the variety of life in a particular ecosystem