Life Science Assessment Part 2
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- Q11. Which is the best definition of a food chain?a model of consumers providing energy to producersa process by which plants make food from the energy in sunlighta method for growing plants without soila path by which energy flows from one living thing to another30s
- Q22. Jaden states that animals do not depend on energy from the sun for food. How would you respond to this statement?I would disagree with Jaden because animals sun themselves to help keep their bodies warm.I would disagree with Jaden because animals either eat plants or animals that eat plants.30s
- Q33. What does a food web show?pictures of different populations of plants and animals in an environmentdescriptions of how different animals of the same type are related in an environmentthe number of plants and animals present in an environmentthe different paths that energy follows as it moves through an environment30s
- Q44. What role do fungi and bacteria play in the energy flow of ecosystems?nutrientsdecomposersproducersconsumers30s
- Q55. What do decomposers do?produce food through photosynthesischange food energy into heat in an animal's bodybreak down dead organisms or the wastes of living thingshunt other animals for food30s
- Q66. Which is a TRUE description of cycles in an ecosystem?Matter moves in cycles and energy is transferred.Nonliving things release waste into the environment.30s
- Q77. How do animals get the nitrogen they need?They absorb nitrogen through their skin.They eat plants or other animals that eat plants.They get nitrogen from the water they drink.30s
- Q88. How do plants and animals interact in the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle?Plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen.Both B and CPlants and animals give off oxygen and carbon dioxide they they decompose.Animals breathe in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide.30s
- Q99. Which sequence BEST describes the nitrogen cycle?Both plants and animals take in nitrogen from the air. They return nitrogen to the air when they die.Plants take in nitrogen from the soil. Animals get the nitrogen by eating plants. When organisms die, decomposers return nitrogen to the soil.30s
- Q1010. What is an ecosystem?all of the physical characteristics of an areaall the living and nonliving things that interact in an areaall of the nonliving things that interact in an area30s
- Q1111. Which of these are physical characteristics of an environment?temperature, rainfall, and kind of soiloverlapping food websinterconnected food chains30s
- Q1212. What does this picture of prairie dogs represent?a populationan ecosystema communityan individual30s
- Q1313. Which of the following does NOT describe a healthy ecosystem?includes invasive speciesa stable physical environmentall species meet their needs30s
- Q1414. Which of the following best describes an invasive species?an organism that does not belong in a certain place and harms the environmenta species that helps native species meet their needsan organism that belongs in a certain place and grows to the point that it harms the environment30s
- Q1515. Which of the following are invasive species found in the United States?prairie grass and buffalograsshoppers and pine treeskudzu and red imported fire ants30s
