Biology: Classification of Organisms and Criteria of Life

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What is the term used to describe the living components of an ecosystem?

Methanogens

Abiotic factors

Lithosphere

Biotic factors (correct)

Which type of consumer obtains energy by consuming other animals?

Carnivores (correct)

Producers

Decomposers

Herbivores

What is the term used to describe the non-living components of an ecosystem, such as water, soil, and atmosphere?

Hydrosphere

Biotic factors

Methanogens

Abiotic factors (correct)

Which type of organism produces its own food through photosynthesis?

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What is the term used to describe the living things within the entire planet Earth?

Biosphere Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe the plates or land that make up the Earth's surface?

Lithosphere Signup and view all the answers

Which type of symbiotic relationship is described where one species benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped?

Commensalism Signup and view all the answers

Which type of consumer is described as 'plucking plant parts without usually killing the plant'?

Grazer Signup and view all the answers

Which type of symbiotic relationship is described where both species benefit from the interaction?

Mutualism Signup and view all the answers

Which term is used to describe an interaction where one species kills and consumes another species?

Predation Signup and view all the answers

Which type of organism is described as 'requiring and eating only one animal in its life span by living parasitically as a larva on a host'?

Parasitoid Signup and view all the answers

Which term is used to describe an interaction where two species require the same limited resource such as food, water, shelter, or sunlight?

Competition Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT a criterion for life?

Require energy from the sun Signup and view all the answers

What is the correct order of classification from broadest to most specific?

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is a heterotrophic species that consumes animals?

Carnivore Signup and view all the answers

What is the two-name system for naming organisms called?

Binomial nomenclature Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic used in the classification of organisms?

Require sunlight for photosynthesis Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used for a group of individuals with the same gene pool and capable of interbreeding?

Species Signup and view all the answers