4.3c Habitat and Niche

Members of a population ____________________ with other populations in a community.

• interact

• compete

• hibernate

• migrate

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A ____________________ is the place or kind of place in which an animal or plant naturally lives.

• habitat

• predator

• offspring

• ecosystem

An organism’s habitat provides ________________, water, shelter, and space.

• food

• light

• air

• heat

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The size of the habitat depends on the organism’s ____________________

• needs

• color

• speed

• location

A ________________ is the function or role that an organism performs in the food web of that community.

• niche

• predator

• habitat

• producer

Fill in the blanks with a word from the word bank. A niche also includes ________________ else the organism does and needs in the environment.

• everything

• nothing

• something

• anything

________________ that share the same need for resources must compete to get their needs met.

• organisms

• plants

• minerals

• machines

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

No two types of organisms ____________________ exactly the same niche in a community.

• occupy

• create

• destroy

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Match the organism to its habitat.

• Wildflowers

• rotting log

• Monkey

• field

• Fungus

• tropical rainforest

Match the organism to its niche.

• spider

• help to decompose rotting wood and return nutrients to the soil

• mushroom

• make webs and eat insects

• sunflower

• grow tall using the sun and produce lots of sunflower seeds

• salamander

• lay eggs in a pond, live in moist forest under logs and rocks and eat small bugs