Unit 7 SOL Review: Ecology

Match the following

• Commensalism

• Relationship where one organism benefits and the other is not affected

• Mutualism

• Relationship where both organisms benefit

• Parasitism

• Relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed

Match the following

• Commensalism

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• Parasitism

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• Mutualism

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Reorder the following

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Match the following

• Limiting factor

• Things that cannot live (like rocks, water, temperature)

• Biotic factor

• Things that can live (plants, animals, bacteria)

• Abiotic factor

• Anything that helps an organism survive in its environment

• Adaptation

• Anything that stops a population from growing beyond what the environment can support

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

In what order does energy flow through a food web, starting with the sun.

• Sunlight

• Heterotroph

• Decomposer

• Autotroph

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Match the following

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b

c

d

Secondary consumer

Tertiary consumer

Primary consumer

Producer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Match the following

• Eats other organisms for food

• Producer

• Breaks down dead organisms

• Decomposer

• Makes their own food

• Consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Match the following

• Climax community

• The first species to grow back (mosses and lichen)

• Pioneer species

• A fully grown, healthy environment

• Intermediate species

• The species that grow back after pioneer species (grasses and shrubs)

• Secondary succession

• An environment growing back from bare soil

• Primary succession

• An environment growing back from bare rock

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Abiotic factor

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(b) Biotic factor

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Label each level on the pyramid

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b

c

d

e

Secondary consumer

Quaternary consumer

Primary consumer

Tertiary consumer

Producer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3