Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Maintaining ________ is important to keep an ecosystem healthy.

• pollutants
• biodiversity
• sunlight
• interactions

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______ are organisms that can be used as warning signals for changes in an ecosystem.

• Abiotic

• Plants

• Bioindicators

• Animals

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________ species are important to ecosystems and many ecosystems would collapse without them.

• Keystone

• Bioindicator

• Invasive

• Living

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What term describes a community of interacting organisms and their environment?

• Resource
• Ecosystem
• Population
• Native

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________ are a keystone species found in tide pools.

• Sea Anemones

• Mussels

• Sea stars

• Animals

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An ____ is all the living and nonliving things that exist and interact in one place.

• producers

• ecosystem

• consumers

• population

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The variety of different life forms in an ecosystem.

• biomes

• deciduous forest

• biodiversity

• grassland

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Biodiversity is important to keep

• invasive species away

• plants healthy

• ecosystems balanced

• animals fed

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Abiotic factors are the ________________ organisms and things in an ecosystem.

• nonliving

• living

• invasive

• keystone

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Check all the biotic factors that could be found in an ecosystem.

• rocks

• plants

• water

• air

• animals