Ecosystem Basics-Science Test

What is an example of an ecosystem?

• a deer

• a group of deers, the sun, rabbits, the lake, the soil, a bird, a tree

• a group of deers

• a group of deers, rabbits, a bird, and a tree

What is one reason decomposers are important?

• They provide food to other herbivores.

• They provide abiotic things for the atmosphere.

• They provide nutrients for plants so they can grow.

• They change the sun's energy into useable energy.

Which environmental change negatively impacts oceans?

• Oil spills

• Littering and building of trash plastics

• Desert

• All of the above

An organism that hunts and feeds on another organism.

• Prey

• Carnivore

• Consumer

• Predator

an animal that gets energy by only eating plants

• carnivore

• consumer

• herbivore

• predator

an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and animals

• omnivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

• anythingore

the process by where plants use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce sugar and release oxygen

• sugar

• consumer

• producer

• photosynthesis

an organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• photosynthesis

What is the word that means: all the living that belong to the same species and live in the same area? _____

all living and nonliving things that exist and interact in one place

• adaptation

• ecosystem

• reproduction