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Ecosystems Quiz
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1.
The carbon in your body could have been part of a dinosaur once. Agree or disagree?
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2.
Dead matter breaks down on its own as it ages. Agree or disagree?
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3.
Scientists use food chains to show what eats what. Agree or disagree?
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4.
Green plants make their own food. Agree or disagree?
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5.
Worms are not the primary cause of decomposition. Agree or disagree?
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6.
Decay is essential to the ecosystems. Agree or disagree?
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7.
Plants get their food from the soil. Agree or disagree?
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8.
Once plants transform the energy from the sun, it becomes part of the food web and it is continually recycled and conserved. Agree or disagree?
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9.
Energy adds up in a food chain so that the top predator would have all the energy from the producers and consumers in the chain. Agree or disagree?
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10.
Flux is bad for an ecological system. Agree or disagree?
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11.
Everything is connected in an ecosystem, such that any effect on one organism negatively impacts others.
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12.
A food web is like a menu. It shows what organisms can choose to eat.
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