4.5 Ecosystems

1. What is the pattern of growing, reproducing, and dying called?

Fertilization

A life cycle

Living pattern

Adaptation

2. What is grass an example of?

Decomposer

Consumer

Producer

Predator

3. What are organisms that break down dead plants and animals called?

Decomposers

Consumers

Producers

Scavengers

4. What is an organism?

Any non-living thing

Any living thing

Anything in an ecosystem

5. The gradual change of organisms to suit their environments is -

A niche.

Adaptation.

Food web.

Ecosystem.

6. Organisms that eat plants or animals are-

Decomposers.

Consumers.

Producers.

Scavengers.

7. Some animals migrate to warmer climates in the winter. This is an example of a -

Behavioral adaptation.

Structural adaptation.

Ecosystem adaptation.

Niche adaptation.

8. Behavioral adaptations are -

Physical characteristics of an organism.

Types of activities an organism performs.

All of the organisms in an ecosystem.

The habitat an animal lives in.

9. Structural adaptations are -

Physical characteristics of an organism.

Types of activities an organism performs.

The habitat an animal lives in.

The job that an animal does.

10. What is an organism's natural home that provides for its needs called?

Niche

Ecosystem

Habitat

Adaptation

11. Why are structural and behavioral adaptations in organisms important?

They help organisms meet life needs.

They allow organisms to avoid interacting with the environment.

They prevent organisms from reproducing.

They allow multiple animals to live in the same habitat.

12. The flow of energy from the sun to producers to consumers and then back into the nutrient pool through decomposers is known as -

A behavioral adaptation.

A structural adaptation.

An environment

A food web.

13. The part an animal plays in the food web, is it's -

Niche

Adaptation

Habitat

Community

14. The color of some animals helps them blend into the surrounding environment so that they are not detected by predators. This is an example of a -

Behavioral adaptaion.

Structural adaptation.

Ecosystem adaptation.

Adaptation hibernation.

4.5 EcoSystems

1. What is the pattern of growing, reproducing, and dying called?

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. What is grass an example of?

3. What are organisms that break down dead plants and animals called?

4. What is an organism?

5. The gradual change of organisms to suit their environments is -

6. Organisms that eat plants or animals are-

7. Some animals migrate to warmer climates in the winter. This is an example of a -

8. Behavioral adaptations are -

9. Structural adaptations are -

10. What is an organism's natural home that provides for its needs called?

11. Why are structural and behavioral adaptations in organisms important?

12. The flow of energy from the sun to producers to consumers and then back into the nutrient pool through decomposers is known as -

13. The part an animal plays in the food web, is it's -

14. The color of some animals helps them blend into the surrounding environment so that they are not detected by predators. This is an example of a -