Environments & Food Chains

Comes from the sun and helps plants grow?

• Energy

• Plants

• Rocks

• Gas

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Which term describes organisms and their environment.

• Population

• Community

• Home

• Ecosystem

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Choose the correct food chain order for the following items: sun, grain, fox, mouse

• Sun → Grain → Mouse → Fox

• Sun → Mouse → Fox → Grain

• Fox → Mouse → Grain → Sun

• Fox → Mouse → Sun → Grain

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The chart shows population changes after a recent flood. The information in this table shows that floods ______.

• are harmful to all species living in the habitat.

• cause changes that help some species thrive.

• result in large temperature changes.

• make populations of most species increase.

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Which term means to grow strong or reproduce?

• Perish

• Live

• Thrive

• Die

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Which of the following is represented in the diagram?

• Evaporation of Water

• Transfer of Energy

• Animal Life Cycle

• Reflection of Light

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Select the organisms that use the sun's energy to survive. Select all that apply.

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What is most likely the first thing to result from having an increase in snakes in the food chain pictured here?

• The snakes would have to find another food source.

• The plants that make seeds would decrease in number.

• The eagles would have to fly away to a location.

• The mice would decrease and the snakes would need to find a new food source.

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Frogs often live in freshwater ponds where they feed on insects and lay their eggs in the water. Sometimes they are eaten by snakes. Frogs would leave the area if ______?

• there were more insects

• the snakes all died out

• the water in the pond dried up

• there was a little more rain

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A scientist studies a group of zebras that all live together in the same area. She records how the zebras interact with the living and nonliving things in their environment. Which part of an ecosystem is she studying?

• Community

• Habitat

• Environment

• Population

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