Ch. 4 Quiz

Which answer best describes a producer in an ecosystem?

• a living organism
• a living organism that produces its own food
• a living organism that produces its own food and is food for other living organisms
• a living organism that produces and consumes other living organisms

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which answer best describes a consumer in an ecosystem?

• A living organism that eats other living organisms
• Someone that buys something
• A living organism that produces food for other living organisms
• An abiotic factor

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A path of energy that flows from one organism to the next (it flows from the sun to the producers to the primary consumers, then to the secondary consumers, to the tertiary consumers).

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Consumers
• Decomposers

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

In the energy pyramid here, which organisms have the most energy available?

• Producers
• Carnivores
• Herbivores
• Top Predator

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

If there is 1000 Kcal available in the producers in trophic level 1, how much energy is available in the herbivores in trophic level 2?

• 10 Kcal
• 1 Kcal
• 100 Kcal
• 1000 Kcal

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in the producers gets passed to the herbivores?

• 10%
• 20%
• 80%
• 90%

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What step of the water cycle is when plants gives off water vapor from photosynthesis?

• evaporation
• transpiration
• sublimation 
• condensation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What makes up 78% of the air we breathe?

• oxygen
• free nitrogen
• fixed nitrogen
• carbon

Identify the cycle pictured.

• The Water cycle
• The Carbon cycle
• The Nitrogen cycle
• The Phosphorus cycle.

Identify the cycle pictured.

• The Water cycle
• The Carbon cycle
• The Nitrogen cycle
• The Phosphorus cycle

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6