Staying Alive (Ecosystems) Unit Test Review

What is behavior?

• Puppy cuddling with its mother

• Good and bad actions

• How an organism's body adapts to a new environment

• The way an organism acts in its environment

Why are rocks are placed along the shores of rivers and streams?

• To speed up heat erosion

• To speed up water erosion

• To prevent water erosion

• To prevent heat erosion

What is the adaptation in which an animal looks like another animal or object?

• camouflage

• mimicry

• migration

• hibernation

Which one is an example of a producer?

• sun

• apple tree

• lion

• book

What is the movement of a group of one type of animal from one region to another and back again?

• migration

• hibernation

• adaptation

• mimicry

Organisms that cannot make their own food, they must eat other organisms.

• producer

• decomposer

• consumer

• symbiosis

What is the process resulting in the survival of organisms best adapted to the environment?

• natural selection

• adaptation

• advantage

• variation

What happens to the animals that live in a habitat that gets flooded due to heavy rains?

• They will learn to swim

• They will evolve and grow fins

• They will have to move to a new habitat until the water goes away

• They will be able to drink a lot of water

Which one is the BEST way to conserve energy resources?

• Use air conditioning instead of ceiling fans to cool your home

• Take a bath instead of taking a shower

• Ride a bicycle to school instead of driving a car

• Plant trees instead of flowers in your yard

A relationship between two organisms that last over a period of time.

• symbiosis

• commenlism

• marriage

• mutualism