Benchmark Review 1

During photosynthesis, plants produce oxygen and _________, which is also known as glucose.

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Producers absolutely, positively have to have...

• Sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide

• Sunlight, water, and oxygen

• Soil, carbon dioxide, and water

• Planes, trains, and automobiles

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Which part of the producer is responsible for absorbing the energy from the sun?

• The roots

• The leaves

• The flower

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In a food chain or food web, which kind of organism must get it's energy directly from the sun?

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Producer

• Herbivore

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What is an apex predator?

• An organism that gets its energy from the sun

• An organism that eats only plants

• An organism that uses photosynthesis to make its own food

• An organism that is a consumer that is not prey for another consumer

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In a food web, both mice and frogs are eaten by snakes. If the snakes went extinct, what would most likely happen to the populations of both the mice and the frogs?

• They would increase

• They would decrease

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Photosynthesis produces _______ for the producer.

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Why are rotting/decaying leaves important in an ecosystem?

• The leaves are used by other organisms for shelter

• The leaves release carbon dioxide into the soil as they rot, which is useful to other producers

• The leaves put useful nutrients into the soil as they rot, which is useful to other producers

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A lizard dies and is buried under many layers of sediment. What might scientists find when they dig up the area later?

• A hole where the lizard used to be

• A fossil of lizard

• A small house that was built by the lizard

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What can scientists learn from fossils?

• The total number of hurricanes that happened in the area in the past

• How to build lizard houses

• What the diet of an organism might have been

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