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Ecology Vocabulary Introduction
Read each question carefully. Use the vocabulary words in context, and choose every correct answer when asked to select all that apply.
Vocabulary in Meaning and Use
1.Which word means to use up a supply or make it smaller?
- cower
- deplete
- disperse
- elusive
2.Which definition best describes an ecosystem?
- A community of living things and the nonliving parts of their surroundings interacting
- A group of buildings found in a city
- A feature passed from one generation to another
- A place that is difficult to locate
3.Which two words can name actions an animal might perform?
- cower and disperse
- genetic and elusive
- ecosystem and metropolis
- deplete and genetic
4.Match each vocabulary word with its meaning.
- elusive
- genetic
- metropolis
- cower
- disperse
- deplete
- related to genes or inherited traits
- a large, densely populated city
- to use up or reduce a supply
- difficult to find, see, or catch
- to crouch or shrink back in fear
- to spread out or move in different directions
Vocabulary in Context
5.Complete the sentence with the best vocabulary word: When thunder cracked, the rabbit began to beneath a bush.
6.Choose the word that best completes the sentence: The dry season began to ______ the pond's limited water supply.
- deplete
- cower
- metropolis
- genetic
7.After a gust of wind, seeds from the milkweed plant traveled across the field. Which word best describes how the seeds moved?
8.A biologist rarely sees the bobcat that lives in a broad forest. Which vocabulary word could describe the bobcat? Explain what the word means in this situation.
9.Which item does not belong with the others as a component of an ecosystem?
- soil
- insects
- sunlight
- metropolis
Word Analysis and Writing
10.Select all the nouns in this list: disperse, ecosystem, genetic, cower, elusive, deplete.
- disperse
- ecosystem
- genetic
- cower
- elusive
- deplete
11.In the sentence “The fox's thick winter coat is a genetic trait,” what does genetic mean?
- Related to inherited information passed through genes
- Hard to observe in the wild
- Spread out across a wide area
- Found only in a large city
12.Write one sentence about an animal or city that correctly uses ecosystem and a word meaning a large city.
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