4.5 Ecosystems

Determine if the facts about niches are true or false.

Groups:

(a) True

,

(b) False

• Caterpillars do not have wings, but adult butterflies can fly

• Tadpoles live in water, but adult frogs live on land

• A baby chick cannot lay eggs, but an adult chicken can lay eggs

• Seedlings make their own food, but fully grown plants don't

Which of the following shows organisms interacting with each other in an ecosystem?

• A giraffe drinking water

• A hawk catching a fish

• A lizard running across the ground

• A dog jumping in mud

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Label the levels of an ecosystem pyramid!

a

b

c

d

Organism

Ecosystem

Population

Community

Match the following levels of an ecosystem correctly.

• Organism

• 
• Community

• 
• Ecosystem

• 
• Population

• 

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What phrase correctly fills in the blank?

Ecosystem - Desert

Community - All living things in the desert

Population - ​ (a)  

Organism - Camel

• Camels in the desert
• All animals in the desert
• Plants in the desert

Grass -> Grasshopper -> Lizard -> Bird

The energy moves through the food chain directly from the...

• Grass to Lizard

• Grasshopper to Bird

• Lizard to Bird

• Hawk to Grass

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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What is the main function of a producer in an ecosystem?

• Make sugar through photosynthesis

• Change liquid into water vapor

• Break down dead plants and animals

• Absorb minerals from soil

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Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant
• Sun
• Deer
• Wolf

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What would happen to the rabbit population if the fox population moved out of the area represented by the food web?

• The rabbit population would increase

• The rabbit population would decrease

• The rabbit population would neither increase nor decrease

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Which of the following organisms is a producer?

• grass

• rabbit

• fox

• snake

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