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Directions: Read the sentences and choose the
correct answer.
1. What is the best definition of ecosystems?
o All the living things living in an area.
o All the nonliving things in an area,
o All the living and nonliving things
interacting in an area.

2. What is a habitat?
o It is a place that provides all the things an
organism needs to live.
o It is the food that provides the energy to
live.
o It is the place that provides only shelter
o It is the place where an organism gets
water

3. All living things in an ecosystem needs energy.

What is the original source of that energy for
most ecosystems on Earth?
o soil
o water
o wind
o sunlight
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4. Many rainforest plants have large, flat leaves.

Many desert plants have small, needle-like
leaves. What is the best reason for that
difference?
o The plants are different ages.
o The plants in the desert do not reproduce.
o The plants are adapted to the conditions of
their environment.
o The plants carry out photosynthesis in
different ways.

5.

The diagram below shows a simple food chain.

Which organism makes food for the entire
ecosystem?
o cat
o bird
o grasshopper
o grass
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6. Which animals are the predators?

o Grasshopper, bird
o Grass, grasshopper
o Bird cat
o Cat grasshopper

7. What is an example of slow change?

o Hurricane
o Tsunami
o Climate change
o Earthquake

8. How might introducing nonnative species

harm an ecosystem?
o The species might remove pollution from
the ecosystem.
o The species might become a food source
for existing species.
o The species might become more popular
to people.
o These species might take resources away
from existing species.
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9. What is the best definition of pollution?

o any waste gases put into the air.
o any trash dumped in landfills.
o any substance that damages the
environment.
o any waste seeping into rivers.

10.How do humans impact ecosystems

negatively?
o People may cause pollution that affects
the air, water, and land.
o People recycle garbage.
o People exterminate nonnative species un
fragile ecosystems.
o Hunting to reduce over population of deer.
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