1. Welcome to Who Wants to be a Millionaire
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1. If scientist are studying the egrets, herons, marsh crabs, and cordgrass, but not the water or rocks in a salt marsh, what level of organization would they be studying?
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A: community
A: community
B: populations
C:individual organisms
D: ecosystem

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2. What word describes the mammals, fish, birds, and plants that live in an environment?
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A: abiotic
B: the biosphere
C: biotic
C: biotic
D: the population

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3. If you made a chart showing all the organisms living in the local pond, with arrows drawn between the organisms showing who ate what, what kind of chart would you have made? 13
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A: ecosystem chart
B: food chain
D: food web
C: energy pyramid
D: food web

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4. An environmental study reporting on the way temperature, water quality, and minerals affect the animals in a salt marsh would be considering which level of organization? 13
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B: ecosystem
A: population
B: ecosystem
C: individual organism
D: community

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5. A community is several species of animals interacting, while a population is . . . 13
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A: the biotic and abiotic elements of an area
B: the nonliving elements of a habitat
D: members of one species
in an area
D: members of one species in an area
C: a single organism

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6. What is the lowest level of environmental organization that three male egrets would all belong together? 12
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A: population
A: population
B: community
D: ecosystem
C: individual organism

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10. 7. Rocks, temperature, and water are what part of the environment?15
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7. Rocks, temperature, and water are what part of the environment? 13
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B: abiotic
A: biotic
B: abiotic
C: population
D: living

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8. A diagram with arrows showing energy flow from grass to a mouse to a snake is . . . 12
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A: a population chart
B: an energy pyramid
D: a food chain
C: a food web
D: a food chain

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13. 9. A bear that eats plants and animals15
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9. A bear that eats plants and animals
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B: omnivore
A: herbivore
B: ominvore
C: carnivore
D: parasite

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10. A triangle-shaped diagram that shows how energy is lost as animals eat living things is a(n) . . . 14
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A: energy pyramid
A: energy pyramid
B: food chain
C: food web
D: biosphere

15. 11. The largest population an environment can support is . . .15
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11. The largest population an environment can support is . . . 13
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A: limiting factor
B: limiting capacity
D: carrying capacity
C: community
D: carrying capacity

17. 12. Symbiosis in which one organism hurts another to benefit itself15
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A: mutualism
B: commensalism
C: parasitism
C: parasitism
D: competition

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13. The depths of the ocean to the heights of the air is which level of organization? 13
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A: population
B: ecosystem
C: biosphere
C: biosphere
D: community

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14. What level of environmental organization describes a community of organisms and their environment? 13
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A: ecosystem
B: biosphere
A: ecosystem
D: population
C: community

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21. 15. Carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores are all . . .
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15. Carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores are all . . . 13
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B: consumers
A: producers
B: consumers
D: prey
C: decomposers

22. 16. What do several different populations living together make?15
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16. What do several different populations living together make? 14
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B: biosphere
A: population
C: community
D: ecosystem
C: community

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24. 17. Organisms that eat just plants are called. . .15
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A: omnivores
B: carnivores
C: herbivores
C: herbivores
D: parasites

25. 18. In which type of symbiosis do organisms help each other?15
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A: parasitism
B: competition
D: mutualism
C: commensalism
D: mutualism

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27. 19. When is food a limiting factor?15
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B: when a population is large
A: when there is too much food
B: when a population is large
C: when a population is small
D: when there is too much water

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20. The term used to describe a sparrow that has been caught by an eagle. . . 14
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A: prey
B: omnivore
A: prey
C: predator
D: herbivore

29. You’ve Reached the $32,000 Milestone! Congratulations!

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A: ecology
A: ecology
B: population
C: biosphere
D: community

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22. Two lionesses are fighting over a fresh kill. What type of competition is this? 13
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C: competition within a population
B: competition within a population
A: predator/prey
C: competition between species in a community
D: parasite/host

32. 23. Limiting factors determine an area’s carry capacity because15
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A: animals need resources
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A: animals need resources to survive
B: ecosystems are small
C: the number of animals is limited
D: the number of animals is unlimited

33. 24. An animal that catches another animal for food is a . . .15
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24. An animal that catches another animal for food is a . . . 13
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A: herbivore
B: prey
D: predator
C: parasite
D: predator

34. 25. What living things make food from sunlight?15
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25. What living things make food from sunlight? 14
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B: producers
B: producers
A: consumers
C: animals
D: frogs

35. 26. Which is an example of an abiotic element changing an area?15
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B: two species of birds competing
A: introducing a new type of grass
C: water flooding the area
C: water flooding the area
D: algae growing on crabgrass

36. B: are thrown out of balance B: are thrown out of balance15
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B: are thrown out of balance
B: are thrown out of balance
A: die
C: benefit
D: are unaffected

37. 28. Trees that gain energy from the sun are an example of a . . .15
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28. Trees that gain energy from the sun are an example of a . . . 14
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A: parasite
B: decomposer
D. producer
C: consumer
D: producer

38. 29. Bacteria is an example of a . . .15
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B: parasite
A: consumer
C: decomposer
C: decomposer
D: producer

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B: organism, population, biosphere,
ecosystem, community
A: organism, population, biosphere,
abiotic elements, ecology
C: organism, population, community,
ecosystem, biosphere
D: organism, population, biotic
elements, abiotic elements,
community
C: organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere

40. Now on to the $1,000,000 Question Congratulations! Congratulations!

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A: which animal is bigger
B: how energy flows
to the animal that is eating
B: how energy flows to the animal that is eating
C: which animals are related
D: how energy flows to the animal that is eaten