Review Category 4

Which of the following is a learned behavior of a kitten?

• Having gray fur
• Playing with yarn
• Drinking Water
• Having two ears

Plants are known as producers because they produce their own food.  How do producers receive the energy for this process?

• By consuming soil nutrients
• By absorbing sunlight
• By releasing water
• By producing oxygen

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A student observing birds in a park records some ways that birds interact with living and nonliving parts of their environment. All the following  observations are was that a bird interacts with nonliving parts of its environment except______

• reacting to morning sunlight by singing
• drinking and taking a bath in a puddle of water
• responding to cold temperatures by fluffing its feathers
• feeding insects to its chicks

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What would most likely happen to the carbon dioxide–oxygen cycle if Earth’s large forests were all cut down?

•  There would be more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because fewer plants would be using it to produce their own food.
• The remaining plants would stop producing carbon dioxide, and animals would use less oxygen.
• The remaining plants would produce more oxygen, and animals would produce less carbon dioxide.
• There would be more oxygen in the atmosphere because fewer plants would be using it to produce their own food.

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In a food chain, energy does NOT flow directly from---

• producer to decomposer
• producer to consumer
• consumer to decomposer
• consumer to producer

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An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• autotroph

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The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.
• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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In this food chain, what will happen if the frogs become extinct?

• The snakes will increase.
• The grasshoppers will decrease.
• The eagles will remain the same.
• The grasshoppers will increase.

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Which of the following is a herbivore?

• cricket
• frog
• hawk
• shrew

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Which of the following would have a negative impact on an ecosystem

• constructing highways
• planting trees
• recycling paper

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