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8.L.3 Ecosystems Review Quiz

Quiz by Jessica Bethea

Grade 8
Science
North Carolina Standard Course of Study

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Measures 3 skills from
Grade 8
Science
North Carolina Standard Course of Study
8.L.3.1
Explain how factors such as food, water, shelter, and space affect populations in an ecosystem.
8.L.3.3
Explain how the flow of energy within food webs is interconnected with the cycling of matter (including water, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and oxygen)
8.L.3.2
Summarize the relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers including the positive and negative consequences of such interactions including: • coexistence and cooperation • competition (predator/prey) • parasitism • mutualism

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​Non-living things in an ecosystem are known as 

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​Limiting Factors

​Carrying Capacity

​Abiotic

​Biotic

10 questions

Q.Non-living things in an ecosystem are known as 
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30 sec
8.L.3.1
Q.The most important abiotic factor in an ecosystem since it provides energy to producers
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30 sec
8.L.3.1
Q.All of the organisms in an area including the abiotic factors
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30 sec
8.L.3.1
Q.What do earthworms, slugs, and mushrooms have to do with soil?
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30 sec
8.L.3.3
Q.Most organisms in an ecosystem eat only one type of organism
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30 sec
8.L.3.3
Q.The parts of the food chain in the picture are out of order.  Which picture should be first in the food chain shown?
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30 sec
8.L.3.3
Q. Ostriches and gazelles eat together.  They both watch for predators and danger.  Since they see things differently, they each can identify threats the other animal may not see.  Both species are benefited.  Which type of relationship is this?
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30 sec
8.L.3.2
Q.Mistletoe takes water and nutrients from the oak tree. This is good for the mistletoe but bad for the tree. What type of relationship is this? 
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30 sec
8.L.3.2
Q.A bison walks through the grass, insects fly up and are seen and eaten by egrets.  This neither harms nor helps the bison, but it is easier for the egrets to get food. What type of relationship is this?
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30 sec
8.L.3.2
Q.If the trees are destroyed in a forest fire, what could happen to the rest of the food chain?
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30 sec
8.L.3.3

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