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Changes in Ecosystems/Learn from the Past

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How do changes in ecosystems affect the living things that live there?

a)

changes don't affect living things

b)

changes only affect non-living things

c)

it affects them because living things depend on the ecosystem to survive

d)

tornadoes

2.

What are natural hazards and how can they change environments?

a)

they are events that can cause great damage and change environments suddenly

b)

hurricanes and tornadoes

c)

natural hazards don't change environments

d)

they are made by humans and change environments slowly

3.

How can humans reduce the impact of natural hazards?

a)

ignore warnings

b)

natural hazards don't impact humans

c)

be prepared: watch the news and evacuate

d)

the 3 R's

4.

What is an ecosystem?

a)

a habitat

b)

all of the living and non-living things that interact in an environment

c)

has ONLY living things

d)

has ONLY non-living things

5.

A food web is...

a)

the overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

b)

food chains

c)

something that starts with the sun

d)

a spider web

6.

What is pollution?

a)

recycle, reuse, reduce

b)

smoke

c)

harmful materials that get into air, water, and land

d)

trash in the ocean

7.

A natural hazard is...

a)

a tornado

b)

a natural event that causes great damage

c)

something made by humans

d)

floods

8.

What is an accommodation?

a)

an organisms response to change in its environment

b)

to compomise

c)

a wall

d)

a bad thing

9.

An organism is...

a)

a non-living thing

b)

a living thing

c)

a frog

d)

a rock

10.

What is a levee?

a)

an accommodation

b)

a river

c)

a flood

d)

an Earth wall designed to prevent flooding

11.

What happened to organisms no longer living on Earth?

4 lines
12.

What can we learn from fossils?

4 lines
13.

What does endangered mean?

4 lines
14.

What does extinct mean?

4 lines
15.

What is a fossil?

4 lines
16.

What is a paleontologist?

4 lines
17.

What is a skeleton?

4 lines