Slick Solution Quiz #2

A food web shows:

• 
  what each animal eats in an ecosystem.
• 
  how energy moves through an ecosystem.
• 
  how nutrients move through an ecosystem.
• 
  all of the above

What does a habitat provide for an animal or plant?

• air
• food 
• shelter
• all of the above

The diagram below shows a food chain. Which is the producer?

• Snake
• Bird
• Grasshopper
• Grass

Which of the following is pollution?

• oil in a stream
• trash on the ground
• chemicals in the ground
• all of the above

A lake becomes polluted. What things are affected by the dirty water in the lake?

• the plants around the lake
• the fish that live in the lake
• the underground water around the lake
• all of the above

How could a model help an environmental engineer do his or her job?

• Models help engineers learn about how ecosystems work.
• Models help engineers try out different designs to see how they work.
• Models help engineers figure out what might happen to an ecosystem.
• all of the above

Which of the following would NOT be part of the job of an environmental engineer?

• Design a technology to clean up a pollutant.
• Investigate the source of underground soil pollutants.
• Pollute a stream to test the effects on the environment.
• Make recommendations to a community on how to clean up river pollution.

Environmental engineers are figuring out how to clean pollution from a lake.  Using a model:

• could help them figure out where the pollution came from.
• could help them try different ideas to clean the pollution without hurting the lake.
• could help them to understand how the pollution could hurt the ecosystem in the lake.
• all of the above

Which is a consumer?

• grass
• racoons
• sun
• all of the above

Which is a producer?

• sun
• hawks
• grass
• snail