S4L1a.b. Ecosystems Pre-Assessment

An ______________ is made up of all the living and nonliving things in one area.

• habitat

• ecosystem

• community

• grouping

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Which list contains only nonliving parts of an ecosystem?

• snakes, deer, grass

• sunlight, soil, mushrooms

• water, air, soil, sunlight

• air, soil, butterflies

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All living organisms get ____________ they need to survive from food.

• producers

• oxygen

• energy

• shelter

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The main energy source for all living things on Earth is...

• the plants

• the air

• the soil

• the Sun

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This type of living organism gets its energy from the Sun in order to make its own food.

• decomposer

• consumer

• predator

• producer

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The picture above is a model of a _________ __________.

• energy chart

• food chain

• flow pyramid

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TRUE or FALSE?

The three types of organisms in a food chain are decomposers, producers, and consumers.

• True

• False

All __________ are producers and can be found at the beginning of a food chain.

• animals

• organisms

• plants

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An organism that eats other plants and animals for energy in order to live is called

• a producer

• a decomposer

• a consumer

• a prey

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What do the arrows in a food chain show?

• how organisms pass water to each other

• the flow of energy leaving one organism and going into another

• how organisms share oxygen

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