Name: ______________________________________ Date:______________________
Vocabulary Quiz
Week of: Oct 13-16
Words: autotroph, heterotroph, carnivore, omnivore, herbivore,
biomass, limiting factor, density-dependent factor, densityindependent factor, carrying capacity.
1. Below, you will see a graph of the data we created after the
“Oh Deer!” activity.
Number in population
Deer Population
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1
0
Deer
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Round (year)
a. What number would you say is the Carrying Capacity of the
deer population in this environment? What is the carrying
capacity in your own words?
b. What type of limiting factors are food, water and shelter?
c. What type of limiting factor would a drought or bad storm be?
Name: ______________________________________ Date:______________________
2. The total mass of all of the living or biotic material in an
ecosystem is called the
_________________________________.
3. A human is an example of a(n)
___________________________ because they can eat meat
and plant matter.
4. Give one example of a carnivore.
5. __________________________________ create their own
energy and are always the first level of a food chain.
6. ___________________________________ must eat other
organisms in order to obtain energy.
7. A cow is an example of a(n) ___________________________
because they eat only plant materials or producers.
8. Define limiting factor and give an example of one.
Name: ______________________________________ Date:______________________