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WorksheetsFood Webs Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which of the following would be the most likely effect, if there were a sudden increase in the cricket population?
a)
There would be a decrease in the small bird population.
b)
There would be a decrease in the grass/flowers population.
c)
There would be a decrease in the mice population.
d)
There would be an increase in the grass/flowers population.
2.
What does a Primary Consumer eat?
a)
Tertiary Consumers
b)
Secondary Consumers
c)
Producers
3.
An organism that lives by breaking apart dead organic matter into simpler parts is...
a)
scavenger
b)
consumer
c)
decomposer
d)
carnivore
4.
In a food web, arrows point at:
a)
who gets energy.
b)
who gets eaten.
5.
What does a food web represent?
a)
All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a ecosystem.
b)
The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
c)
A single pathway or energy flow between organisms.
d)
How carnivores get their food.
6.
Which of the following is a herbivore?
a)
cricket
b)
frog
c)
hawk
d)
shrew
7.
If the grasshopper were to be removed completely from the food web, what organism would be most effected?
a)
The squirrel
b)
The shrew
c)
The deer
d)
The rabbit
8.
Which organism receives the least amount of energy from the producer?
a)
Owl
b)
Grasshopper
c)
Lilypad
d)
Mouse
9.
A _______________ cannot make its own energy and eats only plants for their energy.
a)
producer
b)
Primary consumer
c)
Secondary Consumer
d)
Tertiary Consumer
10.
_____________ are an example of decomposers.
a)
fish
b)
bacteria
c)
plants
d)
seaweed
11.
Which organisms from the Food Web is consuming the Insects?
a)
Lynx, Hare
b)
Shrew, Red fox
c)
Lynx, Red Fox
d)
Hawk, Shrew
12.
What might happen if you remove a primary consumer from the ecosystem?
a)
There would be more food for secondary consumers.
b)
The number of primary consumers would increase.
c)
The number of plants would increase.
d)
The number of secondary consumers would increase.
13.
If the sun provides all energy in the Energy Pyramid, and the energy decreases by a division of 10 as you travel up the pyramid, how much energy does the Tertiary Consumer have?
a)
100%
b)
10,000%
c)
10%
d)
.1%
14.
Virtually all plants are autotrophic. But there are no autotrophic animals or fungi. What can you infer about autotrophic organisms?
a)
They can move on their own
b)
They are at the top of the food chain
c)
They can make their own energy
d)
They reproduce slowly
15.
What is the process in plants that produce food for the plants and oxygen.
a)
photosnthesis
b)
I don't know
c)
Photosynthesis
d)
growing
16.
When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?
a)
Continues to grow
b)
The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity
c)
The population will go extinct due to lack of resources
d)
The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity
17.
If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then...
a)
Populations will stay the same
b)
Populations will decrease
c)
Populations will increase
18.
The largest population an area can support is called what?
a)
population density
b)
carrying capacity
c)
exponential growth
d)
habitat
19.
What is it called when an organism leaves an area or population?
a)
immigration
b)
limiting factor
c)
emigration
d)
death rate
20.
Space, food, water, weather conditions, disease, and climate/weather conditions can be examples of what?
a)
biotic factors
b)
limiting factors
c)
abiotic factors
d)
death rate
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