Which is NOT an abiotic factor:

• soil
• air
• bacteria;
• water

What might happen if you remove a primary consumer from the ecosystem?

• There would be more food for secondary consumers.
• The number of primary consumers would increase.
• The number of plants would increase.
• The number of secondary consumers would increase.

A consumer that hunts is called:

• a producer.
• an omnivore.
• a predator.
• a herbivore.

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What might occur when a carnivore is removed from the food web?

• A)  Nothing.  Organisms cannot impact things below them on the energy pyramid.
• B)  Primary consumers will overpopulate.
• C)  Plants will be over browsed by herbivores.
• D)  both B and C might occur.

symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is harmed 

• secondary succession 
• predation
• pioneer species 
• parasitism

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anything that an organism needs to live, ex. food, water, space

• carrying capacity
• resource
• succession
• denitrification 

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

This is an image of a _________.

• consumer
• scavenger
• decomposer
• producer

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Non-living factor that affects an ecosystem

• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• food chain 
• biome

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

• A
• B
• C
• D