Ecosystems and Food Chains

What parts are included in an ecosystem?

• Plants and Animals

• Just Plants

• Just Animals

• Everything - Plants, Animals, Decomposers, Water, Soil and Rocks.

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What is the word that means everything - including plants, animals, rocks, soil and water - that lives in a particular environment?

• ecosystem

• food chain

• symbiosis

• organism

What is the meaning of the prefix eco-?

• money

• together

• make

• environment

A wolf is an example of a/an ___________ because it is at the top of its ecosystem's food chain and has no predators other than humans.

• decomposer

• producer

• apex predator

• herbivore

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A mouse eats a bug. A snakes eats the mouse. A hawk eats the snake. This is an example of a _________.

• symbiosis

• food chain

• apex predator

• organism

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The African Oxpecker is a type of bird. It eats parasites off the backs of zebras. The Oxpecker gets food and the zebra avoids getting diseases from the ticks. This is an example of __________.

• apex predator

• food chain

• symbiosis

• carnivores

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The root word bio- means ___________.

• writing

• the study of

• life

• eater

The root word -vore means _________.

• all

• eater

• plant

• meat

A koala is an example of an ___________because it only eats plants.

• carnivore

• herbivore

• omnivore

• plantivore

LeBron James is an example of an _________ because he eats plants and animals.

• omnivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

• everythingore