Benchmark (Fall) Review

White-tailed deer eat plants, acorns, fruits, nuts, and twigs. Which describes the role of a white-tailed deer?

• heterotrophic herbivore

• heterotrophic omnivore

• autotrophic herbivore

• autotrophic omnivore

Which substance is used by plants as a source of food?

• water

• glucose

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

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Which best describes the reactants and products of photosynthesis?

• Reactants are formed inside the plant, and products are taken in from the environment by the plant.

• Reactants are taken in from the environment by the plant, and products are formed inside the plant.

• Reactants and products are formed inside the plant.

• Reactants and products are taken in from the environment by the plant.

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If the producer contains 100,000 kcal of energy, about how much energy will the snakes obtain from eating the frog?

• 10 kcal

• 1,000 kcal

• 100 kcal

• 10,000 kcal

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This picture shows a natural environment.

Which lists only biotic factors in this environment?

• tree, water, rocks, bears

• trees, bears, grass, birds

• bears, water, rocks, birds

• birds, bears, clouds, mountains

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This picture shows a natural environment.

Which lists only abiotic factors in this environment?

• railroad track, school building, tree, clouds

• school building, fence, grass, trees

• railroad track, school building, fence, sign

• school building, fence, clouds, tree

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Some consumers, like tigers, do not eat plants or any other producers. They only eat other animals.

How do tigers obtain the carbon they need?

• by eating animals that have carbon-based molecules stored in their bodies

• by breathing it in from the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide

• by absorbing carbon-based molecules through their skin from the soil

• by drinking water that contains carbon dioxide

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Which is the best example of a parasitism?

• Pearlfish hides with a sea cucumber & the sea cucumber is not affected

• A Mockingjay catches and eats a dragonfly

• An ant eats nectar produced by a flower, and the flower is not harmed.

• Tapeworm lives inside the intestines of a bear, robbing the bear of nutrients.

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A plant has to grow close to the ground to resist cold, shallow roots because of frozen soil. Which biome is it in?

• temperate rain forest

• tropical rain forest

• tundra

• desert

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Which tropisms are best illustrated?

• phototropism and positive gravitropism

• positive gravitropism and hydrotropism

• hydrotropism and thigmotropism

• thigmotropism and phototropism