Question: An ecologist might conduct research to answer which of the following questions?

Answer: How do tapeworms cope with life in the human intestine?

Question: Which of these would be considered a biotic component of your environment?

Answer: your friend

Question: Which of these is a population?

Answer: **all of the people living in your state

a tropical rain forest

you

you and all of the prokaryotes living in and on you

you, all of the prokaryotes living in and on you, and the clothes you are wearing

Question: The specific place in which an organism lives is its _____.

Answer: habitat

Question: What is the ultimate source of energy for nearly all surface terrestrial and shallow water ecosystems?

Answer: sunlight

Question: Which of the following is an example of a biome that is transitional between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems?

Answer: wetland

(Wetlands contain water at least some of the time and provide habitat for many organisms and often protection for neighboring ecosystems.)

Question: Which of the following are key factors for determining the biome of a specific region?

Answer: both temperature and rainfall

Question: The dominant greenhouse gas is _____

Answer: carbon dioxide

Question: Which of these is a community?

Answer: all of the organisms living in your home

Question: A graduate student is studying the influence of territory size on reproductive success in northern shrike. Which hierarchical level is she studying?

Answer: population ecology