Living Things in the Environment

Look at the picture and answer the questions:

Arrow 1 represents ________________.

Arrow 2 represents ________________.

The third factor that the tree needs to make food is _________________.

Identify which of the following are producers or consumers.

Label 3: ____________________

Label 4: ____________________

Label 5: ____________________

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Fill in the blanks using the words below:

Food chains always start with a __________________.

An animal that eats another animal is called a __________________ .

An animal that is eaten by other animals is called a __________________ .

An animal that eats something else in a food chain is called a _________________.

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Match the ways that humans destroy the environment (1–4) with some of the effects of this destruction (A-D)

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Read about "Wangari - the Green Lady of Kenya" and answer the following questions.

A) What negative effect did deforestation have on Kenya's land?

B) How did the women in Kenya help to stop the global warming?

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

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an area where living things interact with one another and with nonliving things

• ecosystem

• population

• community

• habitat

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an organism that makes its own food

• consumer

• producer

• food chain

• competition

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an organism that eats other organisms

• producer

• consumer

• bigger

• dinosaur

what is a group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and reproduce offspring that can mate and reproduce

• population

• community

• species

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Which organism would function best in this habitat?

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Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant

• Rabbit

• Mouse

• Hawk

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