Ecosystems End of Unit Assessment

Below is an example of a simple food chain.

Acorn → Squirrel → Fox → Mountain Lion 

What will most likely happen if squirrels are removed from the food chain?

• The fox will eat acorns
• The fox population will decrease
• The trees will produce fewer acorns.
• The mountain lion population will increase

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Which is an abiotic factor that would affect the growth of a population within an ecosystem?

• the availability of water
• the availability of producers
• the type of herbivores present
• the number of carnivores present

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In a forest ecosystem, a food chain might look like this:
green plants → rabbit → fox → panther

If the green plants are destroyed in a forest fire, which short-term effect will this have on the organisms in this food chain?

• There would be fewer rabbits for the foxes to eat. 
• The panthers would have to begin to eat green plants.
• There would be an increase in the fox population
• There would be more green plants for the rabbits to eat

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In the energy pyramid here, which organisms have the most energy available?

• Producers
• Carnivores
• Herbivores
• Top Predator

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In the energy pyramid below, which organism has the least amount of energy available?

• Producers
• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Top Predator

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If there is 1000 Kcal available in the producers in trophic level 1, how much energy is available in the herbivores in trophic level 2?

• 10 Kcal
• 1 Kcal
• 100 Kcal
• 1000 Kcal

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This diagram shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.

• Energy Pyramid
• Food Web
• Ecosystem
• Food Chain

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In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in the producers gets passed to the herbivores?

• 10%
• 20%
• 80%
• 90%

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If these organisms were arranged in a food pyramid, which organism would have the least amount of total energy available?

• coyote
• insect
• lizard
• shrub

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The diagram represents a pyramid of energy in an ecosystem.  Which level would most likely contain members of the plant kingdom?

• A
• B
• C
• D

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