Parts of Ecosystem

What type of organism always starts the food chain?

• Producer (Plants)

• Consumers (Organisms)

• Predators (Organisms)

• Decomposers 

What do arrows in a food web show?

• the flow of energy and matter in an ecosystem

• what predators eat

• movement

• where consumers get food

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This picture shows a

• community

• ecosystem

• population

• individual

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Describe the ecosystem in this picture.

• water, sunlight, dirt

• deer, fox, birds, trees, rabbit

• deer, fox, birds, rabbit, ducks, water, sunlight, rocks, dirt

• one fox

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What are the biotic factors in this image?

• sunlight, elephants, grasses

• sunlight, water, oxygen

• elephants, trees, grasses

• clouds, rocks, soil

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Water, sunlight, rocks and oxygen are examples of

• biotic factors.

• abiotic factors.

• populations

• communities

A complex system that includes biotic and abiotic factors that interact with each other.

• Population

• Community

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

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Describe the community in this picture.

• water, sunlight, dirt

• deer, fox, birds, trees, rabbit

• deer, fox, birds, water, sunlight, dirt

• one fox

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Living factors or organisms that affect an ecosystem...

• abiotic factors

• biotic factors

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Name a population in this picture.

• water, sunlight, dirt

• birds

• 2 deer

• one fox

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