Environmental Factors

What is the correct definition of a drought?

• Too much water in an area

• On all living things interacting in an area

• a period of time when water is scarce in an area

• to grow and survive well

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What is an accurate example of a plant thriving

• A plant growing tall with strong roots in the ground

• A plant wilting away due to a lack of water

• A plant being cut down before being able to grow

• A mole stealing a seed from the ground

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What term matches the image?

• Flood

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Perish

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What is the correct definition for the term perish?

• to leave

• to die

• to grow

• to enter

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In a forest habitat, a certain kind of tree suffers a disease, so trees of this kind fail to produce seeds. Which of the following describes a negative effect might this have on the forest habitat?

• Other trees produce healthier seedlings since there is less competition.

• There could be a decrease in the population of animals that eat the seeds of this tree.

• Smaller plants, that grow in the shade of these trees, would grow much taller.

• These trees will grow more since they are not producing seeds and have more resources

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A highway is built in an area. This will most likely have which of the following effects on the organisms in the area?

• An increase in the number of bird species in the forest

• More animals will be born in the forest

• The number of trees will increase

• Animals that move around might get run over.

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The climate in an area becomes warmer so the population of flying insects increases. This will have the greatest positive effect on which organism?

• Spiders that eat insects

• Other animals that fly

• Cougars that eat rabbits

• Butterflies that eat milkweed

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Plants that need lots of water cannot survive in a _____________________ environment.

• wet

• rough

• dry

• windy

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The environment determines the ________________________ that live there.

• nonliving

• living

• soil

• organisms

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What term matches this definition:

Living things that belong to the same group and live in the same area

• ecosystem

• perish

• population

• organism