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A pond contains fish, snails, and insects. It also contains pond plants and algae which make oxygen. What are some of the populations found in this pond?
Fish
Snails
Insects
algae
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All the sea gulls of a species that occur together at the beach in the summer are called a what?
population
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4. What effect can a long term drought have on a forest ecosystem?
Grasses, shrubs, and trees of the forest die
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5. Decomposers are helpful to the food chain because they do what?
Provide nutrients for the soil
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6. What are some examples of consumers?
Omnivores
Herbivores
Carnivores
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Wild deer live in Daniel Boone National forest. What would make the deer population smaller?
Introducing a predator of the wild deer, like the gray wolf.
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8. The removal of a predator from a food web can have what effect?
It may allow the numbers of its prey to increase.
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9. What is a main role of fungi and bacteria in a food web?
Decomposers of once living material that return nutrients to the soil
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A tornado roars through a rural environment uprooting trees and dropping debris in freshwater streams and ponds. What effect can the tornado have on the animal life of the ecosystem?
Populations of native animals will decrease from lack of shelter and food.
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11. What would be an example of a parasitic relationship?
Tick and dog
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In a food chain, a mouse eats grass, a hawk eats the mouse, and a wolf eats the hawk. What is the primary role of the mouse in this food chain?
To be a source of energy
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In a food chain, a mouse eats grass, a hawk eats the mouse, and a wolf eats the hawk. The grass would be considered what?
A producer
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In a food chain, a mouse eats grass, a hawk eats the mouse, and a wolf eats the hawk. The mouse would be considered what?
An herbivore
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In a food chain, a mouse eats grass, a hawk eats the mouse, and a wolf eats the hawk. The wolf would be considered what?
A carnivore
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What is something that could create an increase in the size of a population?
An increase of food
A decrease in predator populations
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17. What kind of organism comes last in every food chain?
Decomposers
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The arrows in a food chain show the path that energy and nutrients take. They point to the organism that ___ the energy.
receives
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19. The process that plants use to make their own food is called what?
photosynthesis
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Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: Large body of salt water
Ocean
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Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: are found where fresh and salt water meet
Salt marsh
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Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: Plants grow here in layers according to the amount of sunlight they need.
Forests
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Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: The savanna in Africa and the prairies in the US are examples
grasslands
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Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: Freshwater with very little (if any) salt
Lakes / ponds
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Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: Organisms have to adapt to living in salt
Ocean
Salt marsh
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Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: The depth of it can determine what organisms can live there.
Ocean
Lakes / ponds
Salt Marsh
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Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: Biotic factors include – squirrel, trees, bears
Forests
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Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: abiotic factors include – sunlight water climate and temperature
All ecosystems
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Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: biotic factors include – cord grass, egrets, raccoons, and crabs
Salt marsh
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Limiting factors in an ecosystem that can limit the size of plant and animal populations include:
Food
Shelter
Space
Water
Temperature
disease
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Given the following organisms, what would be the best food chain to show the transfer of energy? Humans, cows, sun, grass
Sun > Grass > Cow > Human
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32. What would be an example of a predator/ prey relationship?
Hawk and Mouse
Cat and Mouse
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Off the coast of South Carolina, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources is sinking old steel ships to create artificial reefs. What effect will this have on this part of the ocean?
Young sponges, anemones, and other animals that stick to solid objects will come and live there
Algae and sea plants that attach to solid objects will come and live there
Small fish, which hide among solid objects from predators, will come and live there
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34. In the organisms get their energy from the sun?
All of the plants
They produce their own food using sunlight
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What living thing in the pond system breaks down dead plants and animals?
bacteria
bacteria
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A primary consumer feeds on plants. A secondary consumer feeds on plant-eating animals. Which of the following animals are primary consumers?
Rabbit
Mouse
Goat
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37. Looking at the picture, which animal is an omnivore, and why?
Rabbit
It eats plants and animals
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In the following picture what is the purpose of the green plant in the food web?
Provide food for the rabbit, mouse and goat
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A cell part is described as smaller than the nucleus, green, needed for food making, and found in algae and plant cells, what is it?
Chloroplast
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The internal parts of a cell are suspended in a jelly-like liquid called the what?
Cytoplasm
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The substance that is found in the chloroplasts of plants and makes those parts look green is called what?
Chlorophyll
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What part of the cell is found within the nucleus and contains the genetic information for the cell?
Chromosomes
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What part of the cell controls all the cell’s activities and is often called the brain of the cell?
Nucleus
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What part of the cell is the storage center for the cell? It is similar to the pantry in your house since it stores items like water and wastes.
Vacuoles
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45. What are the two items that are only found in plant cells?
Chloroplasts and cell wall
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46. Plants have fewer and larger what?
Vacuoles
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47. What is the shape for plant cells?
Shaped like a box
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What is the part of the cell that allows oxygen and nutrients to enter the cell and carbon dioxide and wastes to exit the cell?
Cell membrane
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Cytoplasm
Animal Cell
Vacuole
Nucleus
Cell membrane
Please identify the following parts: Nucleus, Vacuole, Cytoplasm, and Membrane AND what type of cell is this?
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Cytoplasm
Vacuole
Cell wall
Chloroplasts
Cell membrane
Plant cell
Nucleus
Please identify the following parts: Nucleus, Vacuole, Cytoplasm, Chloroplasts, Membrane, and cell wall AND what type of cell is this?
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