Practice Test: Food Chains Food Webs Energy Pyramids and Cycles

the movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and back

• decomposer

• carbon cycle

• nutrient cycle

• food web

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back

• carbon cycle

• water cycle

• nitrogen cycle

• nutrient cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Continuous flow of nutrients into and out of stores in the ecosystem; balanced, unless disturbed by human activity

• food chains

• nutrient cycle

• carnivore

• omnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

• herbivore

• food chain

• energy pyramid

• consumer/heterotroph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.

• food chain

• food web

• energy pyramid

• carbon cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web

• energy pyramid

• food web

• food chain

• trophic level

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Each step in a food chain or food web is called a

• trophic level

• consumers

• autotrophs

• water cycle

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

How many trophic levels are there in this food web?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which trophic level is the second order consumer?

• producer

• grasshopper

• bird

• snake

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Organisms that make their own food

• plant

• mushroom

• squirrel

• human

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6