Environmental Science - Midterm

Reorder the following levels of a food chain

• Tertiary Consumer

• Sun

• Primary Consumer

• Producer

• Secondary Consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Non-living factor that affects an ecosystem

• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• food chain 
• biome

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which of the following is another word for a plant?

• autotroph
• heterotroph
• consumer

Label the levels of organization:

b

a

c

d

e

Population

Species

Ecosystem

Community

Biosphere

Match the following

• carnivore

• eats both plants and animals

• scavenger

• eats other animals

• herbivore

• eats only dead, decaying organisms

• decomposer

• eats only plants

• omnivore

• gets nutrients from breaking down the remains of other organisms

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Match the following

• Chemical Energy

• Uses photosynthesis to create own energy

• Heterotroph

• Food Energy

• decomposer

• gets nutrients from breaking down the remains of other organisms

• Autotroph

• The specific role played by an organism or a population of organisms

  in the ecosystem

• Niche

• An organism that must eat other organisms for energy.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Snake - ​ (a)  

Rabbit - ​ (b)  

Grass - ​ (c)  

Shrub - ​ (d)  

Trees - ​ (e)  

• Heterotroph
• Autotroph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Match the following

• Herbivore

• Primary Consumer

• Eats animals

• Carnivore

• Eats plants

• Secondary Consumer

• Eats plants & animals

• Omnivore

• Carnivore/Omnivore

• Herbivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Match the image with a description of the Biome

• Taiga

• 
• Deciduous Forest

• 
• Rainforest

• 
• Tundra

• 
• Desert

• 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Select the tundra biome on the map