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Use the diagram answer the question.
What is a fitting description for this diagram?

• A Food Chain
• An Ecosystem
• A Food Web
• Biotic and Abiotic Factors

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An illustration that uses arrows to show the MANY possible directions in which matter and energy can pass through the organisms in an ecosystem.

• Food chain
• Food web
• Energy Pyramid
• Succession Map

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Which best describes what a food chain shows you?

• Energy flow through an ecosystem
• Food flowing through an ecosystem
• Consumers going into other consumers
• Who eats who

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Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all  _____  parts of the environment

• alive
• biotic 
• abiotic
• living

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When dead plants decompose and nitrogen is returned to the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres? 

• The biosphere and atmosphere 
• The atmosphere and geosphere 
• The geosphere and atmosphere 
• The biosphere and geosphere 

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This biome is found around the equator and is home to a large amount of biodiversity.

• Deserts
• Tropical Rain Forests
• Savannas
• Chaparral 

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Which of the following shows an abiotic factor interacting with a biotic factor in the environment?

• Lamprey eels survive by attaching themselves to trout.

• Water temperature affects its oxygen level.

• Low light intensity affects the growth of forest pine trees.

• Gypsy moth caterpillars eat the leaves of apple tree.

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The best way to represent a large, complex system, such as the nitrogen cycle, would be a

• written paragraph

• bar graph

• model

• graph

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An example of an abiotic factor is...

• sunlight

• oak tree

• dead lizard

• moose

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Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all _____ parts of the environment

• abiotic

• biotic

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