6.4 - The Concept of Ecosystems
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Practice Questions
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What is an ecosystem?
💡 Hint: Think about how living things depend on each other.
Name one type of producer.
💡 Hint: Consider what makes food through sunlight.
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What do we call organisms that produce energy through photosynthesis?
💡 Hint: Think about plants.
True or False: Decomposers are necessary for recycling nutrients in an ecosystem.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens to dying things.
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Design an experiment to study the effects of removing a primary consumer from a small ecosystem.
💡 Hint: Consider the roles of the organisms involved.
Analyze a local ecosystem and identify its producers, consumers, and decomposers. Explain their interactions.
💡 Hint: Look at how living things depend on one another.
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