Ecosystems Biomes and Habitats

Ecosystems and Biomes

By Charri Little

Multiple Choice

What is an Ecosystem?

• The living things of an environment

• The plants in the environment.

• The nonliving things of an environment.

• The living and nonliving things interacting with each other in an environment.

Multiple Choice

Abiotic means ..........

• The living things like people.

• The nonliving things like the soil

Multiple Choice

Trees, people and insects are examples of .......?

• Abiotic factors

• Biotic factors

​71 % of the earth is comprised of water!

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​ Aquatic Ecosystems

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Multiple Choice

Oceans are a type of

• freshwater

• saltwater

• brackish water

• estuary

Multiple Choice

Which aquatic ecosystem is a mixture of freshwater and saltwater?

• Oceans

• Lakes

• Estuaries

• Ponds

Open Ended

What type of animals can be found in oceans?

Multiple Choice

Lakes and Ponds are a type of

• freshwater

• saltwater

• brackish water

• estuary

​Less than 31 % of the earth is comprised of land!

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​Terrestrial

Biomes

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Multiple Choice

We ( North Carolina) is part of this biome.

• Tropical Rainforest

• Tundra

• Deciduous Forest

• Grassland

Open Ended

How is the tropical rainforest and the deciduous forest alike and different?

Fill in the Blanks

In the deciduous forest, there are ______ seasons and the leaves change _________.

Multiple Choice

This biome have a lot of grass but very few trees.

• Tropical Rainforest

• Deciduous Forest

• Grasslands

• Taiga

Multiple Select

These are other names for the grassland.

• taiga

• prairie

• savanna

• tundra

Multiple Choice

Animals like bobcats and trees like evergreens are found in this biome.

• Grassland

• Deciduous Forest

• Tundra

• Taiga

Multiple Choice

The Taiga have these types of trees that have needles instead of leaves.

• Birch Tree

• Coniferous Trees

• Maple Tree

• Oak Tree

Draw

Draw a picture of the desert. Include a plant and animal.

Multiple Choice

This biome is the coldest with few rain and trees.

• Tundra

• Taiga

• Desert

• Rainforest

Open Ended

What is permafrost and what biome is it associated with?

Multiple Choice

Omnivores eat

• meat only

• plants only

• both meat and plants

• dead organisms

Multiple Choice

Herbivores eat

• meat only

• plants only

• both plants and animals

• dead organisms

Multiple Choice

What energy role describes an organism that cannot make its own food and therefore gets energy by eating other organisms?

• consumer

• producer

• sunlight

• autotroph

Multiple Choice

All of the following are types of consumers EXCEPT for

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

• Producers

Multiple Choice

Earthworms eat decaying living material in the soil, and then return that energy to the ecosystem. This energy role is

• omnivore

• herbivore

• decomposer

• autotroph

Multiple Choice

Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• plant

• deer

• sun

• wolf

Multiple Choice

Which food chain is in the correct order?

• cat, grass, bird, snail

• bird, snail, grass, cat

• grass, snail, bird, cat

• grass, cat, bird, snail

Multiple Choice

Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?

• More than one organism may eat them

• They may eat more than one other organism.

• This organism gets its energy from multiple sources.