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Ecosystems Test Review Sheet

1. List the requirements for human life on a planet.

2. Based on the graph to the right, can humans breathe on Mars?

Why/why not?

3. Which planet/moon would most likely be able to support life

similar to life found on Earth?

4. Why do scientists think there might be alien life on the moon

Europa?

5. What do all living things require to survive on other planets?

6. Why don’t we expect to discover aliens living on the moon?

7. What is the temperature range in which water exists as a liquid and could possibly support life?

8. What are some technological advances that allowed humans to survive on the moon?

9. List at least 3-4 things that you would not be able to survive without as you travel in a space ship to

Mars.

10. A carnivore eats other animals. An herbivore eats plant material. Give a real life example of a

carnivore eating an herbivore.

11. On a walk in the woods, a student observes a large tree that has died and fallen onto the ground.

One year later, the student notices that only a small amount of the large tree remains. What happened to

the matter that once made up the fallen tree?

12. Students take turns caring for the organisms living in their classroom. They have an aquarium of

fish, a hamster, and a fern. Classify each of these organisms according to their energy roles (i.e.

producer, consumer, decomposer, etc.).

13. List 3-4 examples of abiotic factors in an ecosystem.

14. Put the following biotic factors in order from smallest to largest: Community, Organism. Ecosystem,

Population

15. What is produced as a result of decomposers breaking down the

biodegradable garbage in a compost pile?

16. Which organism in the ecosystem to the right is a producer?

17. What are the energy roles of the cat in the ecosystem to the right?

18. What will happen to the tarantulas in the ecosystem to the right if the

ants died out?

Ecosystems Test Review Sheet