• A

• B

• C

• D

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A farmer is reading a nature guide to learn how to make changes to a pond so that it will attract and support wildlife. The guide gives the suggestion listed below. Which suggestions involves interactions between two groups of living organisms

• Suggestion 1

• Suggestion 2

• Suggestion 3

• Suggestion 4

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a part of the ecosystem like plants, animals and bacteria that require energy to survive and have basic needs that must be met

• living (biotic)

• nonliving (abiotic)

• esential

• ecosystem

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What is made up of all the living and nonliving things which an organism interacts with?

• Atmosphere

• Water Supply

• Environment

• Soil

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Plants are interacting directly with another living element of their environment when they are

• soaking up water

• absorbing sunlight

• attracting insects

• taking in carbon dioxide

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What evidence do you have that living organisms require non living things?

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Beetles can vary in color from one species to another depending on their genes. The table below shows the characteristics of the habitats you would find the two different colors of beetles living. The environment that each of these beetles live is experiencing several years of a drought which reduces the amount of plant growth each year. What would this environmental impact have on the beetle population?

• The number of brown and green beetles will decrease because of the drought

• The number of brown and green beetles will increase because of the drought

• More green beetles will survive the drought to pass on their green genes to future generations

• More brown beetles will survive the drought to pass on their brown genes to future generations

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Most insects begin their life cycle inside of one of these. What is it?

What is a herbivore?

• Organism that only eats meat

• Organism that eats both meat and plants

• Organism that only eats plants

eats only producers/plants

• Consumers

• Photosynthesis

• Herbivores

• Decomposers

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