Science Energy in Ecosystems Quiz

Organisms that produce their own food using radiant energy?

• producer / autotroph

• heterotroph / consumer

• decomposers

• biotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Organisms that must eat other organisms to gain energy?

• decomposers

• producer / autotroph

• heterotroph / consumer

• biotic

As you go up the energy pyramid, what happens to the amount of energy available at each level?

• energy increases

• energy decreases

• sustainability

• abiotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

How do the number of organisms in each level of an energy pyramid compare as you go up the pyramid?

• the number of organisms in each level increases

• sustainable levels

• the number of organisms in each level decrease

• biodiversity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What type of organisms are found consuming organisms from all levels?

• heterotroph / consumer

• producer / autotroph

• biodiversity

• decomposers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the quantity and variety of different species living in an ecosystem?

• biodiversity

• biotic

• abiotic

• decomposers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What is the ability of an ecosystem to survive over a period of time?

• biodiversity

• biotic

• sustainability

• abiotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

As biodiversity increases, what happens to the sustainability of the area?

• increases

• decreases

• sustainability

• biotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

living or product of something living (or once living)

• biotic

• abiotic

• sustainability

• biodiversity

things that are not living (not made of cells)

• biodiversity

• decomposers

• abiotic

• biotic