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  "id": "a24fe0b1-a0a6-54ba-80b2-c791c6b0061f",
  "slug": "topic-2-ecology-part-1",
  "title": "Topic 2: Ecology (part 1)",
  "course": "IB ESS",
  "level": "SL",
  "topic": 2,
  "questionCount": 15,
  "page": "https://splycr.com/ib-ess/topic-2-ecology-part-1",
  "data": "https://splycr.com/library/topic-2-ecology-part-1.json",
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  "section": {
    "name": "Topic 2: Ecology",
    "page": "https://splycr.com/ib-ess/ecology"
  },
  "source": {
    "name": "Biology by Bradford",
    "href": "https://biologybybradford.com"
  },
  "questions": [
    {
      "number": 1,
      "question": "The parts of Earth where life exists, composed of individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems?",
      "answer": "Biosphere",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Population",
        "Community",
        "Ecosystem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 2,
      "question": "A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring?",
      "answer": "Species",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Biosphere",
        "Population",
        "Ecosystem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 3,
      "question": "A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area and capable of interbreeding?",
      "answer": "Population",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Biosphere",
        "Habitat",
        "Species"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 4,
      "question": "The particular set of abiotic and biotic conditions and resources upon which an organism or population depends?",
      "answer": "Ecological niche",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Keystone species",
        "Biotic factors",
        "Lincoln index"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 5,
      "question": "Non-living physical factors such as temperature, pH and salinity that influence organisms?",
      "answer": "Abiotic factors",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Ecological niche",
        "Lincoln index",
        "Carrying capacity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 6,
      "question": "Living components of an ecosystem, including competition, predation and mutualism?",
      "answer": "Biotic factors",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Lincoln index",
        "Keystone species",
        "Abiotic factors"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 7,
      "question": "The maximum population size a habitat can support given its limited resources?",
      "answer": "Carrying capacity",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Ecological niche",
        "Keystone species",
        "Biotic factors"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 8,
      "question": "Limiting factors whose effect intensifies as a population becomes more crowded (e.g. competition, disease)?",
      "answer": "Density-dependent factors",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Logistic (S-curve) growth",
        "Exponential (J-curve) growth",
        "Biotic factors"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 9,
      "question": "Population growth that accelerates without limit because resources are not limiting?",
      "answer": "Exponential (J-curve) growth",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Logistic (S-curve) growth",
        "Density-dependent factors",
        "Abiotic factors"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 10,
      "question": "Population growth that slows and then levels off at carrying capacity as limiting factors take effect?",
      "answer": "Logistic (S-curve) growth",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Exponential (J-curve) growth",
        "Density-dependent factors",
        "Abiotic factors"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 11,
      "question": "A collection of interacting populations within an ecosystem?",
      "answer": "Community",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Population",
        "Ecosystem",
        "Biosphere"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 12,
      "question": "The location in which a community, species or organism lives?",
      "answer": "Habitat",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Ecosystem",
        "Population",
        "Biosphere"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 13,
      "question": "A community and the physical environment with which it interacts; an open system of energy and matter exchange?",
      "answer": "Ecosystem",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Community",
        "Biosphere",
        "Population"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 14,
      "question": "A species that has a disproportionately large effect on community structure relative to its abundance?",
      "answer": "Keystone species",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Carrying capacity",
        "Abiotic factors",
        "Biotic factors"
      ]
    },
    {
      "number": 15,
      "question": "Formula M × N ÷ R used with capture–mark–release–recapture data to estimate the size of a motile population?",
      "answer": "Lincoln index",
      "wrongOptions": [
        "Carrying capacity",
        "Keystone species",
        "Biotic factors"
      ]
    }
  ]
}