Question

use the drop-down menus to complete the statements. two people, steve and nancy, both live in boston, massachusetts. steve and nancy are dropdown. since they are both human, they are part of the same dropdown. because they both live in boston, they are in the same dropdown.

Explanation:

1. For the first blank: Steve and Nancy are individuals, so the term for individual organisms of the same species in a context like this is "organisms" (or "individuals", but in ecological terms, as they are human (a species), they are individual organisms).
2. For the second blank: Since they are both human, they belong to the same "species" (a species is a group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, and all humans are part of the Homo sapiens species).
3. For the third blank: Because they both live in Boston, they are in the same "population" (a population is a group of individuals of the same species living in a particular geographic area).

Answer:

1. organisms (or individuals, but in the context of ecology, "organisms" is appropriate for the first blank)
2. species
3. population

(Note: Since the drop - down menus are not shown, we assume the typical ecological terms. If the drop - down had options like "organisms", "species", "population" for the respective blanks, these would be the correct choices.)