Ecosystems

The role of plants in a food web is 

• consumer
• decomposer
• predator
• producer

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Choose the complete and logical food chain.

• sun-plant-rabbit- eagle
• deer - squirrel- plant-sun
• sun -deer-plant- eagle
• eagle- squirrel-rabbit- plant- eagle

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How do animals depend on plant for survival?

• Animals help spread seeds of plants for new growth
• Animals are producers in a food web
• Plants and animals need sunlight to survive
• Animals eat plants and other animals that eat plants for food

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Cutting down trees will ...

• have very little effect on the living things in the ecosytem
• affect most of the plants and animals in the ecosystem
• only affect animals that live in the trees of the ecosystem
• only affect animals that live in ecosystem

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Choose the list that BEST describes what plants and animals need to survive.

• soil, water, sunlight, food, air
• air, water, sunlight, and a source of food for energy
• food, air, oxygen, space, and water
• environment, habitat, space and sunlight

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How do plants get their source of energy (food)?

• Plants get their food from the soil and water
• Plants use the energy from the sun, air, and water to make their food
• Plants get their food from minerals
• Plants get their food from the decaying plants and animals

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Which of these relationships is harmful?

• crocodile and plover bird
• Two scavenger birds fighting to eat a dead animal
• A flea on a dog
• A ladybug eating aphids on a plant

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Which best desribes the relationship between the dwarf african frog and blood worms?

• harmful
• competitive
• beneficial
• predator/prey

Which of the following provides organisms in an ecosystem with ALL of their basic needs to survive?

• habitat
• soil
• producers
• air

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A squirrel makes its habitat in a forest. A company purchases the land and cuts down the trees.  What would happen?

• The squirrel population would continue to increase
• The squirrel would adapt to living there
• The squirrel population would decrease
• The tree population would increase

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