ECOSYSTEMS

What is an ecosystem?

• it is a community of living organisms and nonliving components of an environment

• a community of living organisms of an environment

• a community of nonliving components of an environment

Which of the following is NOT a nonliving component?

• grass

• soil

• air

• water

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Click on ALL the resources living things need to survive.

• Water

• Food

• Space

• Humans

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A producer does which of the following?

• It eats only meat, not plants

• It makes its own food

• It eats only plants, and no meat

• It is something that turns dead things back into the soil

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An animal that eats BOTH plants and animals is known as which of the following?

• An herbivore

• An omnivore

• A carnivore

• A producer

Click on all that are considered nonliving factors in an ecosystem

• Plants

• Wind

• Temperature

• Predators

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What do we call a trait that helps a living thing survive in its environment?

• adaptation

• swimming

• fighting skills

• ecosystems

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Organisms that make their own food are called...

• producers

• herbivores

• omnivores

• carnivores

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An organism that needs to eat other organisms is called...

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer

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A community of organisms interacting with one another and with nonliving factors in an area is called...

• environment

• population

• ecosystem