GSE 5th Grade Organisms and Environments Review

Ecosystems

100

Flowers, trees, plants, and grass all make their own food in a process called photosynthesis. What are these types of organisms called?

Producers

200

Organisms that get energy by eating other organisms are called ___________________.

Consumers

300

Which substance do animals get from plants in order to breathe? (Spell it out)

Oxygen

400

Which substance is needed by plants to survive and is released into the environment by animals? (Spell it out)

Carbon Dioxide

500

Sunlight, air, water, rocks, and soil are all parts of an ecosystem that are ____________________.

Non-living

Book Sense

100

Beavers dams cause _________ and _____________ to form.

Ponds and wetlands

200

Events such as an ______________ happen more slowly.

Ice age

300

Bees, birds, flowers, soil, water, and sunlight are all part of an __________.

Ecosystem

400

Volcanoes can cause long-term change when ___________ and _______________ block out the suns rays.

Dust and gases

500

This is in many soaps and cleaners that kill many bacteria.

Antibiotics

This and That

100

What does M.A.D stand for?

Migrate, Adapt, Die

200

Living things rely on their environment for _________, air, _________, and a place to live

Food and water

300

All living things are.

Organisms 

400

Something that someone must teach you before you can do it on your own is known as what?

Learned Behaviors

500

This is where most human trash ends up in.

Landfills

Vocabulary

100

Protecting ecosystem and the organisms living in them.

Conservation

200

Any harmful substance that gets into the environment.

Pollution

300

All the living and nonliving things in nature.

Environment

400

A community of living and nonliving thing and everything around them.

Ecosystem

500

This happens when all the members of a certain kind of living thing die.

Extinction

Miscellaneous

100

Many types of plants grown in a forest ecosystem. How do plants affect the air that forest animals breathe? F. Plants use oxygen from the air to make food. G. Plants release pollution into the air. H. Plants release energy from the sun into the air. J. Plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen in the air.

J. Plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen in the air.

200

Which of these is a learned behavior of a bird? A. Knowing which houses have bird feeders B. Eating worms C. Having webbed feet D. A broken wing

A. Knowing which houses have bird feeders

300

What type of environmental change is considered natural? A. Forest fire B. Building roads C. Drought D. Hunting

C. Drought

400

A neighborhood will be built on 26 acres near Gainesville.  What type of organism will be responsible for this environmental change? 

Humans

500

Some zebras are taller, and some can run faster.  Some have longer hair, and some have longer tails. What is the most important reason for a population to have individual variation.

To survive if the environment changes.