Short Answer
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Directions: Use the illustration below to answer questions 1 through
3.
How many consumers derive their energy from grasses in this food
web?
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2.
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Which
organism derives its energy from the most number of sources?
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3.
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What
effect do you think a drought would have on a parairie food web?
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4.
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Directions: Use the illustration below to answer questions 5 through
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Which level harnesses energy from the sun or from
chemicals?
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5.
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What
happens to the energy that isn't used by organisms or passed on to the next level?
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6.
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Why
are fewer organisms at the top of the pyramid than at the bottom?
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7.
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Directions: Use the illustration below to answer questions 7 through
9.
Which biome covers most of the United
States?
Which biome do you think is located in the eastern part of the United
States?
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Which
biome receives less than 25 centimeters of rain per year?
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9.
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Why
do tall mountains contain several biomes?
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10.
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Derections: Use the illustration below to answer questions 10 through
12.
Which layer of the rain forest captures the most rain and
sunlight?
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11.
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How
are monkeys adapted for living in the canopy of a rain forest?
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12.
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Why
do many of the plants living on the rain forest floor have large leaves?
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13.
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Why are most producers in water biomes located near the surface or in
shallow water?
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14.
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Which
zone contains the most types of organisms?
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15.
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How
are living conditions in the intertidal zone similar to and different from the living conditions in
the deep zone?
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16.
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Directions: Use the illustration below to answer questions 16 through
18.
Over time, changes to what characteristic helped the separated finch
populations adapt to their local food sources?
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17.
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Is a
parrotlike beak better adapted to feeding on fruit or insects?
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18.
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What
would likely happen to the population size of the vegetarian tree finch if trees on the island did
not fruit one year?
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19.
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Directions: Use the illustration below to answer questions 19 through
21.
What features help these ant- and termite-eating mammals find and dig
out insects?
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20.
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How
are the armadillo and pangolin adapted to fending off predators?
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21.
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What
can you infer about the environments where these five mammals are found?
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