Mid Unit 9 Review

Which of these is a NON LIVING component of an ecosystem?

• PLANT

• ANIMAL

• SUN

• FUNGI

Which of these is a LIVING component of an ecosystem?

• TREE

• SUN

• WATER

• AIR

The elements required for survival: FOOD, WATER, AIR, SHELTER, are also known as _____ ?

• INTERACTION

• NON LIVING

• LIVING

• NEEDS

_______________ are LIVING THINGS; anything that can grow, change, reproduce and eventually die.

• ORGANISMS

• WATER

• SUN

• AIR

Plants are interacting directly with another living component of their environment when they are –

• soaking up water.

• absorbing sunlight.

• attracting insects.

• taking in carbon dioxide.

Frogs in a pond interact with both living and nonliving components in their ecosystem. Frogs interact with nonliving components when they –

• eat swimming insects for energy.

• lay their eggs in bodies of water.

• become food for another animal.

• hide beneath plants in the pond.

What need for a turtle should be added to the list shown here?

• Snow to fall on it

• Trees for it to climb

• Predators to hunt it

• Air for it to breathe

What do earthworms, slugs, and mushrooms have to do with soil?

• They all live in the soil

• They all help organisms decompose into the soil

• They all are a vital part of the ecosystem

• All of the above

Plants make their own food

• True

• False

All the energy that organisms get from food matter originally comes from sunlight

• True

• False