Environmental Science (Unit 2, part 2)

What is the term for traits that help organisms survive and reproduce in their environment?

• Adaptation

• Biodiversity

• Biomass

• Carrying capacity

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which term describes the variety of life found in one area, including animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms?

• Biodiversity

• Biomass

• Conservation Plan

• Food Chain

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the organic material that can be used to generate energy, produce biofuels, and heat homes?

• Biomass

• Carrying capacity

• Decomposers

• Detritivores

What is the term for the number of organisms of a species that a habitat can support?

• Carrying capacity

• Conservation Plan

• Disturbance

• Keystone Species

What do you call organisms that eat a diet consisting mainly of herbivores or other carnivores?

• Carnivores

• Herbivores

• Consumers

• Decomposers

What is a plan to conserve a natural place, ecosystem, and/or organism with goals and outcomes?

• Conservation Plan

• Carrying capacity

• Food Web

• Ecosystem Components

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What are organisms called that depend on producers or other types of organisms for food?

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Detritivores

• Herbivores

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What term describes organisms that consume dead organisms and other organic waste?

• Decomposers

• Consumers

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

What are organisms that consume the remains of dead plants called?

• Detritivores

• Decomposers

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

What term is used for changes that can affect an ecosystem?

• Disturbance

• Adaptation

• Interactions

• Interest-Holders

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5