Ecosystems

A __________ is all the living and nonliving things around you.

• Ecosystem
• Community
• Environment 
• Population

A _____ hunts prey.

• Predator
• Prey
• Consumer 

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True or False?
A food chain is several food webs that overlap.

• True
• False

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What is a carnivore?

• A living thing that eats meat only
• A living thing that plants
• there dad
• there mom

A ____ is a herbivore

• Black bear
• Bunny
• Wolf
• Mosquito

Which one should MOST LIKELY be on the top of the energy pyramid?

• Wolf
• Fox
• Owl 
• Racoon 

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Decomposers are very important in an ecosystem because they break down dead organisms.  True or False?

• True
• False

Behaviors or physical characteristics that make an organism survive in its environment

• natural selection
• adaptations
• niche
• traits

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A living thing that can make its own
food is a ______________. 

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• food chain

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Consumer

• an inherited characteristic that provides a specific advantage to individuals that have it and becomes more common or pronounced in a population because of the advantage that it provides
• an animal that gets energy by eating only other animals
• an organism that gets energy from eating another organism
• an organism that consumes dead or nonliving biomass without need for internal digestion