Environmental Quiz

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Environmental Quiz 1

• Review Guide

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1. Biomes

• Read BIOME FACT SHEET.
• To study, have someone read you a biome
  description and then you identify it.
• Go over and know all answers to the BIOME
  REFLECTION QUESTIONS.

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Organisms

• Definition Any living thing.
• Examples You, starfish, tree, bacteria.

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Biotic Abiotic Factors

• Definitions
• Abiotic Non-living parts of an ecosystem (never
  have lived/never will).
• Biotic Living parts of an ecosystem (either
  living right now or use to be a living thing).
• Examples
• Biotic Paper, grass, dog, cat, wooden pencil
• Abiotic (the five categories) Soil,
  Temperature, Water, Sunlight, Oxygen (Air)

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Habitat

• Definition The place where an organism lives
  and that provides the things the organism needs.
• Examples
• Mushrooms grown on damp soil.
• Termites live in tree bark.
• Rabbits live on the ground of the forest.

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Adaptations

• Definition
• Something about an organisms body or the way it
  behaves that helps it live.
• What are the 3 major categories?
• To obtain food
• Reproduction
• Survival
• Be able to give a real life example from each
  category.
• Skunks smell, Pelicans beak, Male cardinals
  color

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Adaptations (continued)

• How do adaptations help animals and plants live
  in their environment?
• To reproduce
• To survive
• To obtain food

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Niche

• Definition
• Simple definition an organisms job or role in
  an ecosystem
• Complete/Detailed definition an organisms job
  in an ecosystem which includes
• The organisms habitat
• What the organism eats
• What eats the organism
• And, how the organism affects its ecosystem

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Niche (continued)

• Example
• See your Clownfish Niche Homework.
• Look at your Practice with a Niche Station Lab.