Environmental Science Unit 1

Which of the following organisms are producers? 

• consumers and phytoplankton
• plants and consumers
• plants and phytoplankton
• phytoplankton and chlorophyll

What is the Nitrogen Cycle?

• The process where nitrogen passes from air to soil to organisms and back to air or soil
• The process where nitrogen is distributed to us
• The process where Nitrogen is made to help plants and animals

What is the Water Cycle?

• The water cycle is where clouds make precipitation
• The process of moving water between Earth's surface and the atmosphere
• All the water on Earth turning into precipitation

What is the Carbon Cycle?

• The process where carbon goes through many forms and moves through the environment
• The process where carbon is being released
• The process where carbon is made

Compare carnivores from herbivores.

• Carnivores eat grass, herbivores eat meat
• Carnivores eat meat, herbivores eat plants
• Carnivores eat people, herbivores don't
• The both eat meat and plants.

What is an ecosystem?

• Food chains connected to each other.
• A community of  organisms and their physical environment
• A system where there are things that move.

The relationship between a zebra and a tick

• Mutualism
• Parasitism
• Commensalism

Food Web

• System of several overlapping food chains
• energy moving from one level to the next
• living/nonliving factors in an ecisystem

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When more than one organism uses a resource at the same time

• Competition
• Resource Use
• Symbiosis
• Predation

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The act of one organism consuming another for food is called what?

• Predation
• Predator
• Prey
• Prada

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