organisms and their environment

Why is carbon dioxide important for plants?

• Carbon dioxide gives plants their green color.

• Plants can release carbon dioxide into the air.

• Plants use carbon dioxide to make their own food.

• Carbon dioxide lets plants absorb their roots.

What is the first element of the food web?

• Eagle

• Sun

• Water

• Wolf

Every ecosystem supplies the basic needs for the organisms that live there. What are the basic needs of all organisms?

• Air, water, food, habitat

• Food, water, habitat, space

• Air, water, food, protection

• Food, attention, change, water

Saguro Cacti live in parts of California, Arizona and Mexico. Gila woodpeckers build their nests inside saguro cacti. The saguro cacti and the gila woodpeckers are both part of the same:

• atmosphere

• ecosystem

• food web

• species

Which organisms release oxygen into the air as part of the carbon dioxide - oxygen cycle?

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Predators

• Producers

Which of the following statements is correct?

• Every organism in an ecosystem eats plants to get energy.

• Predators in an ecosystem get their energy directly from plants.

• All organisms in an ecosystem get their energy from both living and non-living things.

• Every animal in an ecosystem gets its energy from another organism in the ecosystem.

Living things that make their own food using air, light, soil and water are called:

• changers

• consumers

• decomposers

• producers

Which of the following provides organisms in an ecosystem with all their basic requirements to survive?

• soil
• air
• habitat
• producers

Organisms that are hunted and eaten?

• mutualism

• prey

• habitat

• niche

• parasitism

All living organisms in an environment?

• mutualism

• biotic factors

• habitat

• niche

• parasitism