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Sophia is studying different ecosystems. Which of the images represents a COMMUNITY with a group of different populations in the same area?

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GA.SEV1.a.

I continuously move water between the atmosphere, the land, and the oceans. What am I? (a)  

• Water Cycle

• Condensation

• Run off

• Infiltration

• Evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

If you were to explain how most of the water moves from lakes and rivers directly back into the atmosphere, what word would you use to describe it?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Run off

• Rain

• Transpiration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Match the following processes with their descriptions in the nitrogen cycle.

• Reduction of nitrates back into nitrogen gas.

• Ammonification

• Incorporation of nitrates and ammonia into plant and animal proteins.

• Nitrogen fixation

• Nitrogen returned to soil as ammonia

• Denitrification

• Conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia by bacteria.

• Nitrification

• Conversion of ammonia into nitrites and nitrates.

• Assimilation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Looking at the on the diagram below, identify the process this number represents in the carbon cycle?

• Combustion

• Photosynthesis

• Consumption

• Metabolism / Respiration

• Decomposition

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

There are organizational levels within a biological system where all biotic and abiotic factors exist. Therefore, all the different communities within an ecosystem make up the __.

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Population

• Biosphere

• Organism

Based on your understanding, identify the herbivores.

• bug

• mouse

• owl

• rabbit

• ram / mountain goat / deer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Based on your understanding, identify the autotrophs.

• algae

• bush / shrub

• cacti / cactus

• tree

• earthworm

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

I am the coldest layer. I protect the earth from meteoroids because they are usually on fire here. My temperature decreases as the altitude increases which starts at about 50km. What am I?

• Mesosphere

• Ionosphere

• Exosphere

• Troposphere

• Thermosphere

I would be described as characteristics that allows an organism to survive in its environment. What am I? (a)  

• Adaptation

• Primary Succession

• Extinction

• Rainforest

• Biotic Factor

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4