Ecosystems Vocabulary Quiz

What is an abiotic factor in an ecosystem?

• An animal in an ecosystem

• A plant in an ecosystem

• A type of weather in an ecosystem

• A nonliving part of an ecosystem

What is an adaptation?

• A characteristic that enables a living thing to survive in its environment

• A type of energy pyramid

• A type of food chain

• A type of habitat

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What is an aquatic ecosystem?

• All the living things in a grassland

• All the living and nonliving things in a water environment, including their interactions with each other

• All the nonliving things in a desert

• All the living things in a forest

What is a biome?

• One of Earth's large ecosystems, with its own kind of climate, soil, plants, and animals

• A type of food web

• A type of predator

• A type of prey

What is a biotic factor in an ecosystem?

• A type of weather in an ecosystem

• A nonliving part of an ecosystem

• A living part of an ecosystem

• A type of habitat

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Where is brackish water usually found?

• Tropical rainforests

• Deserts

• Savannas

• Deltas, estuaries, and salt marshes

What is the carbon cycle?

• The continuous trapping of nitrogen gas into compounds in the soil and its return to the air

• The flow of energy, starting with the sun, through different levels of organisms

• The continuous exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen among living things

• The path of the energy in food from one organism to another

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What is a carnivore?

• A type of producer

• A type of decomposer

• An animal that eats plants

• An animal that eats another animal

What does the term 'community' refer to in an ecosystem?

• All the living things in an ecosystem

• All the nonliving things in an ecosystem

• All the plants in an ecosystem

• All the animals in an ecosystem

What is a consumer in an ecosystem?

• Any animal that eats plants or eats other plant-eating animals

• Any plant that produces oxygen and food that animals need

• Any type of weather in an ecosystem

• Any type of habitat in an ecosystem

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