Interactions in an Ecosystem

Decomposers break down dead organisms and produce _____________ that enrich the soil

• minerals

• water

• plants

• organisms

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Prairie soils can often be identified by their rich, dark ___________ or top layer of soil.

• minerals

• plants

• topsoil

• water

Living organisms that produce oxygen and food that animals need are called ___________.

• consumers

• decomposers

• producers

• ecosystem

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Native Americans once hunted __________ on prairie lands. Today, cattle and crops live there.

• fish

• bird

• buffalo

• insects

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Pipits, longspurs, horned larks, and about 300 other kinds of ______ live on the Blackland Prairie.

• birds

• mammals

• reptiles

• amphibians

A person who investigates the activities of living things in an ecosystem is called ___________.

• anthropologists

• ecologists

• paleontologists

• zoologists

The place where an organism lives is called its _________________.

• niche

• habitat

• environment

• house

What species eats and what eats that species is part of its ____________, or role in the ecosystem.

• habitat

• environment

• home

• niche

All the interacting living and nonliving things in an area describes a(n) ________________.

• biotic factor

• abiotic factor

• ecosystem

• habitat

The living parts of an ecosystem are called ________ factors.

• abiotic

• biotic

• consumer

• producer