Living and Non-living Interactions

Choose the list with ONLY living organisms

• Plants, Animals, Insects, Bacteria, Fungus

• Rocks, Trees, Air, Flowers

• Reptiles, Rivers, Mountains, Monkeys

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Select the list with ONLY Nonliving Things (Abiotic)

• Keyboard, Ant, Snow

• Paper, Human, Mouse, Table

• Rock, Car, Football, Sun

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Which is NOT a characteristic of a living thing?

• Responding to their environment

• Finding or making food for energy

• Reproducing

• Do not reproduce

What is an ecosystem?

• A place like school

• It is the natural gravity that pulls down on us.

• All the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an area

What is a Decomposer?

• An organism that breaks down dead organisms and wastes to live and grow

• An organism that only eats plants

• An organism that only eats meat

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The living and nonliving components exist together in an ecosystem and do not impact each other.

• True

• False

The nonliving components in an ecosystem are important because they help determine what kinds of organisms can survive in the ecosystem.

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which of the following does not belong in the desert biome?

• rattle snake

• cactus

• rocks

• panda