Ecosystems Pre-Assessment

What is an ecosystem?

• The place an animal lives

• The role that plants and animals have

• The climate and other non living things in a certain area

• The relationship of living and nonliving things

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A non-living part of an ecosystem might be

• antlers on a deer

• shade on a person

• a dead leaf

• a nut on a tree

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If the sun were completely blocked so that it no longer provided energy to the plants in a lake, what would happen to the remaining life in the lake?

• Only the animals that eat the plants would die

• only the plants die

• all of the organisms in the lake would die

• all of the carnivores would die

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Check all of the characteristics of living things

• they need nutrients (food & water)

• they grow & reproduce

• they respond to their environments

• they move

• they do not breathe

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Check all of the animals that are carnivores.

• Bear

• rabbit

• deer

• fox

• wolf

Check all of the animals that are herbivores.

• Rabbit

• Cow

• Bobcat

• Horse

• Mountain Lion

Bacteria, fungin, and earthworms are all?

• scavengers

• decomposers

• consumers

• producers

Which of the following describes consumers?

• organisms which are able to make sugars for energy

• organisms that must eat other animals for energy

• organisms that must eat other plants or animals for energy

• organisms that break down dead bodies and waste

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What is an example of a positive way in which human action impacts an ecosystem?

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Some rainforest plants live high up in trees and have long roots that grow into the soil. The word that best describes this is:

• extinction

• adaptation

• abiotic

• producer