Matter & Energy in the Ecosystem Practice Quiz

When an ecosystem is healthy and thriving.

• Balanced Ecosystem

• Unbalanced Ecosystem

• Symbiotic-Mutualism

• Ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The process by which plants make their own food.

• Glucose

• Photosynthesis

• Chlorophyll

• Oxygen

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

A sugar that is produced by plants during the photosynthesis process.

• Photosynthesis

• Chlorophyll

• Glucose

• Oxygen

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A living thing that spreads through an ecosystem where it did not exist before.

• nutrients

• invasive species

• endangered

• producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

A biological community of interacting living and non-living things.

• ecosystem

• endangered

• food/energy/matter transfer

• producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Two organisms living together for mutual benefit.

• symbiotic-mutualistic partnership

• balanced ecosystem

• consumer

• ecosystem

When matter energy is transferred in an ecosystem from one organism to another.

• symbiotic-mutualistic relationship

• nutrients

• scavenger

• food-matter energy transfer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organisms that consume other living things.

• consumer

• producer

• scavenger

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Makes its own food to survive.

• producer

• decomposer

• scavenger

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organisms that break down dead plant or animal matter.

• decomposer

• scavenger

• producer

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3