Which of the Following Is an Example of an Ecosystem

question 54

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of an ecosystem?

• A) all of the brook trout in a 500-square-hectare river drainage system
• B) the plants, animals, and decomposers that inhabit an alpine meadow
• C) a pond and all of the plant and animal species that live in it
• D) the intricate interactions of the various plant and animal species on a savanna during a drought
• E) all of the organisms and their physical environment in a tropical rain forest

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Definitions:

Susceptibility

The likelihood or tendency to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing or condition.

Egocentrism

The inability to differentiate between self and other, often resulting in viewing the world solely from one's own perspective.

Conservation

The understanding that certain properties of an object or substance remain the same even when its appearance changes, a concept grasped during the concrete operational stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

Mass

A measure of the amount of matter in an object, fundamental in physics and chemistry for understanding the properties of substances.