Living Things and Their Environment

What does an organism get from its environment?

• Love, happiness, and friendship
• Money, fame, and power
• Nutrients, energy, and resources
• food, water, and shelter

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An organism gets food, water, shelter, and other things it needs to live, grow, and reproduce from its

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An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce is its

• community

• species

• habitat

• ecosystem

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The living or once living parts of a habitat that provide food and decomposing plants are called

• abiotic

• bitotic

• organism

• scavengers

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Which component of the ecosystem is considered non-living?

• Animals

• Plants

• Water

• Bacteria

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What is the process by which plants make their food using sunlight?

• Respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Decomposition

• Condensation

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The nonliving parts of a habitat are called

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How is an ecosystem organized

• species, community, population, ecosystem

• ecosystem, community, population, species

• community, species, population, ecosystem

• species, population, community, ecosystem

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What type of organism breaks down dead material and returns nutrients to the soil?

• Producers

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Scavengers

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What is the term for the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem?

• Ecology

• Biodiversity

• Conservation

• Environment

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