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Identify your class block.

• 1st Block
• 2nd Block
• 3rd Block
• 4th Block

There are organizational levels within a biological system where all biotic and abiotic factors exist. Therefore, all the different communities within an ecosystem make up the __.

• Ecosystem
• Community
• Population
• Biosphere
• Organism

A student observes that when they leave a cold drink on the table, it eventually becomes warm. What principle does this observation illustrate?

• The drink absorbs heat energy from the table due to convection.
• The drink absorbs cold energy from the air due to conduction.
• Cold naturally flows from the drink to the surroundings due to the First Law of Thermodynamics.
• Heat naturally flows from the warmer surroundings to the cooler drink due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
• Cold naturally flows from the drink to the surroundings due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

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Based on your understanding, identify the herbivores.

• bug

• mouse

• owl

• rabbit

• ram / mountain goat / deer

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Based on your understanding, identify the autotrophs.

• algae
• bush / shrub
• cacti / cactus
• tree
• earthworm

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I continuously move water between the atmosphere, the land, and the oceans. What am I? (a)  

• Water Cycle
• Condensation
• Run off
• Infiltration
• Evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

If you were to explain how most of the water moves from lakes and rivers directly back into the atmosphere, what word would you use to describe it?

• Evaporation
• Condensation
• Run off
• Rain
• Transpiration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Match the following areas with their characteristics.

• A cold, treeless area with frozen subsoil.

• Tundra

• An area with trees that shed their leaves during a specific season.

• Grassland

• An area with coniferous forests and cold climates.

• Taiga

• A dry, barren area with little precipitation.

• Deciduous Forest

• An area dominated by grasses and few trees.

• Desert

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Match the following water bodies with their characteristics.

• A small, narrow body of flowing water.

• Estuary

• A large body of water surrounded by land.

• Pond

• Where water with low and high salinity meet; high in nutrients creating lots of biodiversity.

• River

• A small body of still water formed naturally or by artificial means.

• Stream

• A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another river.

• Lake

Match the following processes with their descriptions in the nitrogen cycle.

• Reduction of nitrates back into nitrogen gas.

• Nitrification

• Conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia by bacteria.

• Ammonification

• Nitrogen returned to soil as ammonia

• Nitrogen fixation

• Incorporation of nitrates and ammonia into plant and animal proteins.

• Denitrification

• Conversion of ammonia into nitrites and nitrates.

• Assimilation

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