Ecosystems Wrap Up

Ecosystems Wrap Up

Unit Test Thursday/Friday

EOG Review Starts Next Week

Science EOG May 21st

Multiple Choice

Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all  _____  parts of the environment

• alive
• biotic 
• abiotic
• living

Multiple Choice

A particular forest contains snakes, lizards, hawks, squirrels, bears, oak trees, and several types of plants and mushrooms.  Together these organisms make up the forest's _____________.

• Community
• Ecosystem
• Habitat
• Population

Multiple Choice

When one species benefits while the other species is harmed, what do you call the species that BENEFITS?

• Parasite
• Prey
• Host
• Predator

Multiple Choice

When one species benefits and the other species is harmed, what do you call the species that is HARMED?

• Parasite
• Prey
• Host
• Predator

Multiple Choice

What do you call it when one species benefits and the other species is not really affected in any way?

• Predation
• Parasitism
• Commensalism
• Mutualism

Multiple Choice

What do you call it when two or more species are competing for the same resources?

• Competition
• Predation
• Commensalism
• Mutualism

Multiple Choice

What do you call it when one species benefits AND the other species benefits?

• predation
• parasitism
• commensalism
• mutualism

Multiple Choice

What do you call it when one species benefits while the other species is harmed?

• Predation
• Parasitism
• Commensalism
• Mutualism

Multiple Choice

What do you call ONE species all living in the same environment?

• Population
• Community
• Ecosystem
• Biome

Multiple Choice

What do you call all of the living things AND all of the non-living things together in the same environment?

• Population
• Community
• Ecosystem
• Biome

Multiple Choice

What do you call ALL the living things in the same environment?

• population
• community
• ecosystem
• biome

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TedED Biodiversity

Poll

Where would you expect to find the most biodiversity?

• Rainforest

• Desert

• Artic

Open Ended

Why is biodiversity important?

Throwback Concept: Chemistry

• Matter cannot be created nor destroyed, only rearranged. (Law of Conservation of mass)

• How does this connect to ecosystems or any of our other units?

Open Ended

What are some ways that matter cycles through an ecosystem?

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Carbon Cycle Video

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Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE?
All of the carbon in existence is continually recycled in the carbon cycle.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

Respiration is the process by which animals take in _____ and release _____. 

• photosynthesis, air
• carbon, oxygen
• oxygen
• oxygen, carbon dioxide

Multiple Choice

Which of the following removes carbon from the atmosphere?

• Combustion
• Respiration
• Photosynthesis
• Death

Multiple Choice

Organisms that do not decompose can be buried and become what?

• water
• nutrients
• air
• fossil fuels

Multiple Choice

Carbon can be found in...

• The atmosphere
• Soil
• Fossil fuels
• All of the above