Unit 3 Pre-Test

Which of these terms best describes animals?

• Producer

• Consumer

• Unicellular

• Decomposer

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Energy Groups

What does a cell use to break down glucose during cellular respiration?

• ATP

• water

• oxygen

• nitrogen

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Respiration

When sunlight strikes a plant, the leaves capture most of that energy to use for photosynthesis. The picture shows the process of photosynthesis in action.

Which of these materials helps plants use energy from sunlight?

• soil

• roots

• glucose

• chlorophyll

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Photosynthesis

Plants make their own food during photosynthesis. In what group do plants belong?

• producers

• consumers

• chloroplasts

• decomposers

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Photosynthesis

Which of these is an example of a producer?

• oak tree

• songbird

• polar bear

• mushroom

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Energy Groups

A scientist is studying a substance that is cycled through ecosystems. Which of these substances might the scientist be studying?

• soil

• copper

• glucose

• nitrogen

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Organic Elements

In a diagram of a food chain, where does a producer, such as a tree, get the energy it needs to survive?

• from the air

• from the sun

• from the organisms it eats

• from the remains of organisms

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Food Chain

Which of these consumers is a herbivore?

• cat

• horse

• human

• vulture

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Energy Groups

Which of these is a characteristic of a fungi?

• absorbs nutrients from the environment

• obtain nutrients by eating other animals

• make nutrients using energy from the sun

• make nutrients using particles in the atmosphere

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Energy Groups

What is energy?

• the ability to do work

• anything that has mass

• anything that takes up space

• the ability to conduct current

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Energy