OpenSciEd 7.5

Autotrophs are organisms that produce their own food. Which do scientists classify as autotrophs?

• Chordates

• Fungi

• Plants

• Molds

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What organisms are at the bottom of an energy pyramid?

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Scavenger

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

How much energy is passed on to each trophic level in an energy pyramid?

• 10%

• 90%

• 50%

• 80%

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Where do crickets get their energy?

• Cattails

• Marsh Grass

• Grasshoppers

• Shrews

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organisms that get their energy and nutrition from other organisms (consumers).

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Decomposer

• Detritivore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which animal is the apex predator?

• hawk

• lizard

• snake

• grass

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which of the following would be the definition of a scavenger/detritivore?

• Animals that eat insects.

• Organisms that feed on rocks, recycling the nutrients back into the ground.

• Organisms that eat only plants

• Things that feed on dead, rotting organisms (roadkill)

If plants breathe in carbon dioxide, what do they breathe out?

• Nitrogen

• Oxygen

• Carbon Monoxide

• Hydrogen

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

• Producer
• Primary Consumer
• Autotroph
• Decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

If a substance is less dense than water it will...

• float

• sink

• combine with water