Ecosystems 5th Grade

Liquid water is moved from living things to the environment when animals–

• Eats

• Urinates

• Sleep

• Breathe

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Matter moves directly from plants to animals when plants are eaten by animals. Matter also moves from plants to animals indirectly through–

• Sunlight

• Heat

• Adaptations

• Air

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Which of the following best describes the role of decomposers in the cycling of matter?

• Providing a source of food for plants and animals to eat

• Using energy from the sun to produce food for plants and animals

• Releasing oxygen gas into the atmosphere for animals to breathe

• Returning nutrients from dead plants and animals to the soil

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Matter moves directly from plants to animals when plants are eaten by animals. Matter also moves from plants to animals indirectly through–

• Sunlight

• Heat

• Air

• Adaptions

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Plants get the food they use for energy and growth by–

• making it from the sunlight.

• breaking down bacteria.

• eating small insects.

• absorbing it from the soil.

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The process by which plants make food requires water and which of the following materials?

• Nutrients from the soil

• Gases in the air

• Dead and decaying animals

• Minerals found in rocks

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Animals get the energy they need for growth and repair from–

• the action of muscles.

• avoiding predators.

• the food they eat.

• protective coloration.

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What is the role of decomposers in a food chain?

• They consume other organisms.

• They break down dead organic matter.

• They use the Sun’s energy to make food.

• They convert inorganic matter into organic matter.

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The green pigments or color in plants that captures sunlight is called

• Glucose

• Oxygen

• Chlorophyll

• Leaves

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A cactus that lives in the dry desert has __________ to conserve water.

• Adaptations

• Stimulus

• Gravity

• Oxygen

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