ISTEP Science Grade 6 Life

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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Cactus. Is it a.....

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

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Fungi. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

All the living parts of an ecosystem

• biotic
• abiotic
• cell
• atom

All members of one kind of organism that live in the same area

• population
• microorganism
• communit
• organism

Is sunlight a biotic or abiotic factor?

• biotic
• abiotic

This animal is an .......

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

What level consumer could you consider the deer?  

• Primary
• Secondary
• Tertiary
• Quarternary

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Which of the following is a herbivore?

• cricket
• frog
• hawk
• shrew

What might occur when a carnivore is removed from the food web?

• A)  Nothing.  Organisms cannot impact things below them on the energy pyramid.
• B)  Primary consumers will overpopulate.
• C)  Plants will be over browsed by herbivores.
• D)  both B and C might occur.

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