Ecology Test

Which of the following best describes the role of mushrooms in an ecosystem's food chain?

• decomposer

• herbivore

• predator

• producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

In a food chain made of grass, mice, snakes, and owls, which consumer level has the greatest amount of energy available to it?

• grass

• mice

• owls

• snakes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which type of consumer feeds on BOTH plants and animals?

• producer

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

Which of the following is an abiotic factor?

• human

• air

• frog

• grass

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Jordin sees many deer crossing the road while she is riding her bike through the countryside. All of the deer belong to a __________.

• community

• population

• organism

• abiotic factor

On an energy pyramid, that is located at trophic level number 2?

• herbivores

• carnivores

• producers

• omnivores

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Only a small amount of energy stored in food is available to the next organism in a food chain because __________.

• most of the energy is used for life processes.

• there are more consumers at the top of the energy pyramid.

• the decomposers are at the top of the energy pyramid.

• None of the above.

What is found at the beginning of each food chain or food web?

• an insect

• a bird

• a consumer

• a producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The diagram shows a food web for a community. Which organisms are carnivores?

• hare and fox

• hare and shrew

• spruce and hare

• hawk and fox

The diagram shows a food web for a community. Which organisms are herbivores?

• hawk and fox

• willow and spruce

• shrew and lynx

• hare and insect