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The study of how living organisms interact with their environment is called:Read the answer and worked solution →A group of interbreeding organisms of one species in one area at one time is a:Read the answer and worked solution →All the different species in an area, plus their interactions, make up a biological:Read the answer and worked solution →Living things in an area together with the nonliving surroundings form an:Read the answer and worked solution →All the parts of Earth inhabited by life together make up the:Read the answer and worked solution →The study of where living things are found and the abiotic factors behind that is:Read the answer and worked solution →Temperature and rainfall across the globe vary mainly with elevation and:Read the answer and worked solution →Deep in a lake, sunlight grows scarce because water, plants and particles all:Read the answer and worked solution →An animal that travels seasonally to escape hostile temperatures is performing:Read the answer and worked solution →An animal surviving a hot, dry season in a dormant state is undergoing:Read the answer and worked solution →An abiotic factor affecting evaporation, transpiration and heat loss from organisms is:Read the answer and worked solution →Some plants need intense heat to complete part of their life cycle, so the disturbance they depend on is:Read the answer and worked solution →The organic matter left available as food after plant respiration is measured as net primary:Read the answer and worked solution →Earth's biomes divide into two major groups: aquatic and:Read the answer and worked solution →Tropical wet forests are found in equatorial regions and are also known as tropical:Read the answer and worked solution →Tropical wet forests show high net primary productivity because their rainfall and temperature are:Read the answer and worked solution →Plants growing harmlessly on other plants in a rainforest are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Grasslands with scattered trees found in Africa, South America and northern Australia are:Read the answer and worked solution →A scrub forest biome found in California and around the Mediterranean is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Temperate grasslands in central North America are also known as:Read the answer and worked solution →The boreal forest, found across Canada, Russia and northern Europe, is also called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Arctic tundra has little species diversity and net primary productivity that is:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the biomesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the abiotic factorsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the ecology gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the ecology wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Hot or cold biomeRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the ecology wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Ecology bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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The study of how living organisms interact with their environment is called:

  1. Ecology
  2. Economy
  3. Ecliptic
  4. Etiquette
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Correct answer: A. Ecology

1. The subject covers organisms and their surroundings together. 2. It asks where living things are found and why. 3. That subject is ecology. _Source: OpenStax Biology 2e, Chapter 44, Ecology and the Biosphere._

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A group of interbreeding organisms of one species in one area at one time is a:

  1. Preservation
  2. Population
  3. Plantation
  4. Perforation
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Correct answer: B. Population

1. All the individuals belong to the same species. 2. They share a place and a time. 3. That group is a population. _Source: OpenStax Biology 2e, Chapter 44, Ecology and the Biosphere._

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All the different species in an area, plus their interactions, make up a biological:

  1. Community
  2. Commodity
  3. Commission
  4. Compromise
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Correct answer: A. Community

1. A population covers just one species. 2. Adding every species in the area widens the unit. 3. That wider unit is a community. _Source: OpenStax Biology 2e, Chapter 44, Ecology and the Biosphere._

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