5th STAAR Review Ecosystems

Which best describes an organisms niche?

• The habitat of an organism

• The consumers the organism eat

• The job an animal has within its population

An organism that feeds on another organism?

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A simple organism that breaks down dead organisms and waste, returning important nutrients to the environment?

• Organism

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

All the members of a species living in a particular area?

• Producer

• Consumer

• Population

• Community

An organism that makes its own food?

• Organism

• Decomposer

• Predator

• Producer

An _______ is a community of living and non-living components in an environment.

• Environment

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Community

_______ are consumers that eat only meat.

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Producers

Which organism makes its own food through the process of photosynthesis?

• Decomposer

• Herbivore

• Producer

• Consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Which describes a decomposer?

• An organism that eats only plants

• An organism that makes its own food

• An organism that breaks down dead matter

• An organism that receives energy for the sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An animal that naturally preys on another animal is called a ________?

• Herbivore

• Predator

• Prey

• Producer