Ecosystems Quiz - Open Note

What is an ecosystem?

• The pattern of weather that affects a particular area.

• The life cycle of a plant from seed to flower.

• All living things in a particular environment like a forest or a desert.

• A community of living of non-living things that interact with their environment.

In most ecosystems, the producers are________________

• green plants

• fungi

• animals

• humans

The study of ecosystems and the interactions that occur among organisms in a geographic area is ____________

• environment

• population

• ecology

• species

Abiotic means

• toxic

• nonliving

• antibiotic

• desert

What is an example of an abiotic element that may change an area?

• introducing a new type of grass to the prairie

• water flooding a prairie

• two birds species competing for the nest habitat

• uncontrollable mold growth on trees

The five levels of organization in the environment, from the first to the fifth level are_________________

• organism, population, biosphere, ecosystem, community

• organisms, population, biotic elements, abiotic elements

• organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere

• organism, population, biosphere, community, ecosystem

Which option is the best definition for Ecosystem

• Living and nonliving things working together.

• Only the living things in a forrest

• How living things change other living things.

• The cause and effect of living things

An organism that gets food by eating other organisms? 

• producer 
• consumer
• herbivore 
• decomposer 

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Decomposers get their food by __________.

• making it themselves
• eating live organisms
• using dead organisms
• eating themselves

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Why is a racoon classified as an omnivore?

• A racoon eats only animals.
• A racoon eats only plants.
• A racoon makes its own food.
• A racoon eats plants and animals.