Organism and Environments Review

Organisms and Environments Review

5th Grade

Watch the videos provided and answer the questions after each one.

• You may pause the video to take notes (or write questions to ask your teacher) during the videos.

• Remember that this is a review so be sure and ask your teacher the questions you wrote down after the videos.

Multiple Choice

In the example from the video, what was at the top of the food chain?

• the sun
• grass
• a rabbit
• a hawk 

Multiple Choice

Plants take the energy from the sun's rays and change it into _____

• light
• water
• chemical energy
• plants

Multiple Choice

All of the energy that's in a food chain starts with _____

• decomposers
• plants
• animals
• the sun

Multiple Choice

A system of living things and their environment is called _____

• an ecosystem
• a food chain
• a habitat
• a neighborhood

Multiple Choice

A self-contained collection of different things that all work together as a whole is called _____

• a system
• a habitat
• a food chain
• a neighborhood

Multiple Choice

What is the scientific name for the area in which plants and animals live?

• a habitat
• an ecosystem
• a neighborhood
• a food chain

Multiple Choice

A food chain is a model that shows how energy flows between _____

• plants and bugs
• living things
• Earth's spheres
• bears and monsters

Multiple Choice

Which animal is often said to be at the "top of the food chain"?

• raccoons
• bugs
• hawks
• humans

Multiple Choice

The flow of energy between living things is often described as _____

• the water cycle
• a food chain
• the carbon cycle
• an ecosystem

Multiple Choice

The power needed to do work, such as staying alive, is called _____

• food
• energy
• food chains
• pizza

Multiple Choice

Losing the decomposers in a food chain would completely mess up ___

• the Lion King movie
• a clean desk
• the nice balance
• the garbage

Multiple Choice

Which organisms keep waste from piling up in an ecosystem?

• decomposers
• plants
• mice
• owls

Multiple Choice

In an ecosystem, decomposers break down ___

• nutrients
• waste
• insects
• worms

Multiple Choice

Chemicals go into the ground and are taken up by ___

• the sun
• plants
• decomposers
• animals

Multiple Choice

Decomposers break waste down into ___

• bacteria and some fungi
• nutrients and other chemicals
• plants and trees
• insects and worms

Multiple Choice

Where do decomposers fit in a food chain?

• at the beginning
• at the end
• in the middle
• any time there's waste

Multiple Choice

The food chain example, from the video, had energy flowing from the mouse to the ___

• tree
• raccoon
• apple
• owl

Multiple Choice

Energy flows through a system of living things in a "what eats what" model called ___

• the carbon cycle
• a food chain
• the water cycle
• an energy line

Multiple Choice

Organisms, like bacteria, insects and worms, that break down waste are called ___

• carnivores
• herbivores
• decomposers
• omnivores

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For lots of different living things, waste is actually a good source of ___ 

• shelter
• energy
• water
• life

Multiple Choice

What are the main decomposers in arctic climates?

• bugs
• earthworms
• fungi
• bacteria

Multiple Choice

Really small creatures that eat phytoplankton are called ___

• fish
• zooplankton 
• krill
• beluga whales

Multiple Choice

The tiny plants in arctic seawater, that convert energy from the sun, are called ___

• phytoplankton
• zooplankton
• fungi
• bacteria

Multiple Choice

Insects, fungi, and bacteria that break down waste matter are called ___

• plants
• decomposers
• animals
• habitats

Multiple Choice

Trees, grass, and other plants change energy from the sun into ___

• salt
• sugar
• oil
• protein

Multiple Choice

A big tangled system that includes every plant and animal in a habitat is called ___

• a food web
• a food chain
• an energy pyramid
• a habitat

Multiple Choice

How many food chains is a polar bear part of?

• one food chain
• two food chains
• three food chains
• multiple food chains

Multiple Choice

A model to describe the flow of energy between living things is called ___

• a space to live
• an ecosystem
• a habitat
• a food chain

Multiple Choice

Food, water, shelter, and space to live are all part of a ___

• food chain
• home
• habitat
• Crash Course video

Multiple Choice

The place where a plant or animal normally lives and grows is called ___

• a garden
• a home
• a habitat
• a territory

Multiple Choice

Why was the polar bear in the desert so miserable?

• he missed his sunglasses

• he wasn't where he belonged

• he didn't have swim trunks

• he was scratched by a cactus

Multiple Choice

Why was the polar bear in the desert so miserable?

• he missed his sunglasses
• he wasn't where he belonged
• he didn't have swim trunks
• he was scratched by a cactus

Multiple Choice

The good news is that ecosystems tend to be ___

• in decline
• out of balance
• delicate
• in balance

Multiple Choice

In every ___, the plants and animals are connected.

• ecosystem
• organization
• entanglement
• spider web

Multiple Choice

In the example, none of the animals had enough to eat, all because of the loss of ___

• one species
• two species
• three species
• several species

Multiple Choice

Frogs eat ___

• bats
• insects
• spider monkeys
• strangler figs

Multiple Choice

Leopards dine on ___

• figs and spider monkeys
• sloths and strangler figs
• sloths and spider monkeys
• ants and bats

Multiple Choice

What is distributed by spider monkeys as they travel throughout the forest?

• whole fruit
• fruit seeds 
• dried leaves
• insects

Multiple Choice

Spider monkeys eat mostly ___

• leaves
• toucans
• nuts
• fruit

Multiple Choice

The things in an ecosystem are all ___

• separate
• connected
• scattered
• unrelated

Multiple Choice

A habitat is home to a tangle of food chains called ___

• a nutrient hub

• an energy chain

• a food web

• the carbon cycle

Multiple Choice

A habitat is home to a tangle of food chains called ___

• a nutrient hub

• an energy chain

• a food web

• the carbon cycle

Multiple Choice

New York City is an extreme example of human's ability to ___

• change an environment

• change their mind

• build farms and fortifications

• clear space for crops

Multiple Choice

After a couple hundred years, the wilderness of New York became paved with over ___

• 96 kilometers of streets
• 960 kilometers of streets
• 9,600 kilometers of streets
• 96,000 kilometers of streets

Multiple Choice

What kind of organism changes its environment?

• only plants

• only animals

• only humans

• everything that's alive

Multiple Choice

The action of moving water from one place to another is called ___

• the natural environment
• irrigation
• the human environment
• natural resources

Multiple Choice

Things that are taken from parts of the world and shaped by people are called ___ 

• the natural environment
• human intervention
• the human environment
• natural resources

Multiple Choice

We usually refer to nature, the wild outdoors, as ___

• the human environment

• the natural environment

• our everyday environment

• resources

Multiple Choice

Over the last 50 years, as pollution has decreased, the number of light colored moths ___

• has decreased
• has stabilized
• has flip-flopped
• has increased

Multiple Choice

After the environment had been polluted for a long time, there were ___

• more dark moths than light ones
• more light moths than dark ones
• more dark birds than light ones
• more light birds than dark ones

Multiple Choice

The peppered moth comes in two types: ___

• hairy and bald
• short and long
• large and small
• light and dark

Multiple Choice

Plants make chemical energy through the process of ___

• respiration
• oxidation
• photosynthesis
• reduction

Multiple Choice

About 300 million years ago, what condition caused many plants to become extinct?

• the climate became drier and cooler 
• the giant insects died out
• too much oxygen in the atmosphere
• the large animals became extinct

Multiple Choice

About 360 million years ago, there were dragonflies that were the size of ___

• mosquitos
• small birds
• large birds
• airplanes

Multiple Choice

About 360 million years ago, the Earth was much warmer, and the land was covered with ___

• hills and mountains
• forests and swamps
• rivers and streams
• glaciers and permafrost

Multiple Choice

A characteristic that helps an organism live in its environment is called ___

• an alteration
• an adaptation
• a mutation
• a transformation

Multiple Choice

A system of living things and their environment is called ___

• the geosphere
• an ecosystem
• the water cycle
• ecology

Multiple Choice

The non-living conditions around a living thing are called its ___

• environment

• ecosystem

• food chain

• food web

Multiple Choice

The non-living conditions around a living thing are called its ___

• environment

• ecosystem

• food chain

• food web

Multiple Choice

What is the main gas that is trapping more heat close to the Earth, acting like a blanket?

• carbon dioxide
• oxygen
• nitrogen
• argon

Multiple Choice

The layer of gases surrounding our planet is called ___

• the biosphere
• the atmosphere
• the hydrosphere
• the geosphere

Multiple Choice

What adaptation do desert snakes have that helps them retain water?

• a moist tongue
• scales
• venom
• heat receptors

Multiple Choice

Taking out the bottom of the food chain is like taking the wrong block in ___

• Jenga
• Tetris
• LEGO
• Lincoln Logs

Multiple Choice

A model of how energy flows between living things in this ecosystem is called ___

• an energy cone
• a food chain
• a power pyramid
• a nutrition web

Multiple Choice

When weather patterns change over a long period of time, we call it ___

• climate adaptation
• weather change
• climate change
• weather adaptation

Multiple Choice

The waxy and tough outer layer of a cactus helps it save ___

• time
• water
• food
• its needles

Multiple Choice

In Yuma, Arizona most of the days are ___

• cold and wet
• cold and dry
• hot and wet
• hot and dry

Multiple Choice

A characteristic that helps an organism live in its environment is called ___

• a configuration
• a mutation
• an adaptation
• a translation

Multiple Choice

In Yuma, Arizona most of the days are ___

• cold and wet
• cold and dry
• hot and wet
• hot and dry

Multiple Choice

The condition of the atmosphere on different parts of the planet is called ___

• weather

• climate

• geosphere

• humidity

Multiple Choice

The condition of the atmosphere on different parts of the planet is called ___

• weather
• climate
• geosphere
• humidity