Pearson Interactive Life Science

This organism is a decomposer. What makes it a decomposer?

• absorbs nutrients from the ground

• absorbs nutrients from dead or decaying matter

• produces its own food through photosynthesis

• all of the choices are correct

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This organism in a scavenger. How do you know?

• it has claws that help it to search/dig for food

• it consumes already dead organisms

• it has sharp teeth for tearing meat

• all of the choices are correct

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What is an inherited trait?

• A trait that an organism learns from its parents or through trial-and-error.

• A trait that an organism is born with and is stored in its genes.

• Being able to do cartwheels

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If you were dissecting an owl pellet from the owl in this diagram, which organisms would you likely find inside the pellet?

• grass and snake

• mouse and possum

• grasshopper and rabbit

• all of the choices are correct

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What is a possible outcome if the squirrel population drastically decreased in this food web?

• The deer population may also decrease.

• The turkey vulture population may also decrease.

• The deer population may increase.

• The turkey vulture population may increase.

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All of the living and non-living things in an area and their interactions.

• adaptation

• ecosystem

• niche

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What are the characteristics of all living things?

• All living things get and use food, move, grow, reproduce, and respond to their environment.

• All living things have brain

• All living thing move to one place to another

• All living things can talk

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Why does every animal in an ecosystem rely on producers?

• producers start all food chains

• producers break down dead waste

• producers eat consumers

• producers recycle

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A decomposer?

• Eats dead plants or animals and breaks down to put nutrients in the soil

• Eats plants or other animals for food

• Makes its own food

• Machine that gathers trash

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What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.

• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.

• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 

• How carnivores get their food. 

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