Ecosystem Interactions

Which term best describes two predators living in the same habitat who feed on the same prey?

• coexistence

• competition

• mutualism

• predatory

Plants interact with living and nonliving components in their environment. Which is an interaction with a nonliving element?

• Small insects eating the stems of the plants

• Humans breathing oxygen released by plants

• Bees gathering pollen from flowers of plants

• Sandy soil holding the roots of the plants

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Which of these is an example of one living thing depending on another living thing?

• Cat walking on the sand
• Bird building a nest in a tree
• Dog warming in the sunlight
• Squirrel drinking water

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What the non-living factor that is the most important to an ecosystem to work?

• Water

• The sun's energy

• Plants

• animals

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_____________ are LARGE areas that have similar climate, plant life, and animals.

• ecosystem

• habitat

• population

• biomes

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Which of the following activities has a positive effect on the environment?

• recycling

• deforestation

• pollution

• garbage

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What effect would building a highway have on an ecosystem?

• increase in butterfly migration
• decrease in destruction of habitat
• increase in carbon dioxide
• increase in oxygen

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Which of the following is a herbivore?

• cricket

• frog

• hawk

• shrew

The shrew (a kind of rat) provides energy for the _______?

• cricket

• grasshopper

• frog

• snake

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Which of the following is NOT a consumer?

• Plants
• Polar Bear
• Oxen
• Insects