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Nature's Patchwork Quilt
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English
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3rd Grade
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Tera Ann Clarkson
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This quiz focuses on ecosystem interactions and habitat relationships, targeting 3rd grade elementary science. The content covers fundamental ecological concepts including interdependence between organisms, adaptation and camouflage as survival strategies, biodiversity within habitats, food chains and energy flow, and the specialized roles (niches) that different species play in their environments. Students need to understand vocabulary terms like interdependence, adaptation, camouflage, biodiversity, food chain, and niche, while also demonstrating their ability to identify examples of these concepts in real-world scenarios. The questions require students to differentiate between similar ecological terms, recognize food chain relationships in different habitats like grasslands and marine environments, and understand both natural habitats and human-made environments like farms. Created by Tera Ann Clarkson, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 3. This quiz serves as an excellent cross-curricular tool that bridges science content with reading comprehension skills, making it perfect for integrated instruction. Teachers can use this assessment for formative evaluation to gauge student understanding of ecosystem vocabulary and concepts before moving to more complex ecological relationships. The quiz works well as a review activity following a unit on habitats and animal adaptations, or as homework to reinforce classroom learning about interdependence in nature. It also functions effectively as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before introducing new ecological concepts. The content aligns with NGSS 3-LS4-3 (environmental changes affect organisms) and 5-LS2-1 (movement of matter among plants, animals, and environment), supporting students' development of scientific vocabulary and conceptual understanding of how organisms interact within their environments.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When plants and animals depend on one another for survival it's called -
interdependence
biodiversity
adaptation
camouflage
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.5
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.3.5
CCSS.RI.4.5
CCSS.RI.5.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The owl's ability to hide in the tree is called -
interdependence
biodiversity
adaptation
camouflage
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.5
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.3.5
CCSS.RI.4.5
CCSS.RI.5.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The webbed feet of a bird that help it swim is an example of -
adaptation
camouflage
biodiversity
food chain
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.5
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.3.5
CCSS.RI.4.5
CCSS.RI.5.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The range of many kinds of plants and animals in a habitat is the -
interdependence
adaptation
biodiversity
camouflage
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.5
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.3.5
CCSS.RI.4.5
CCSS.RI.5.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Seals, salmon, sardines, and shrimp are all part of a ________.
patchwork quilt
food chain
adaptation
species
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.5
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.3.5
CCSS.RI.4.5
CCSS.RI.5.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Each plant and animal in a habitat has a special role, called a _________.
skill
adaptation
piece of a quilt
niche
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.5
CCSS.RI.2.5
CCSS.RI.3.5
CCSS.RI.4.5
CCSS.RI.5.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which plants and animals are part of a food chain in a grassland habitat?
roots, prairie dogs, snakes, hawks
shrimp, sardines, salmon, seals
leaves, giraffes, lions
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