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WorksheetsEcology
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 20mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which best describes what a food chain shows you?
a)
Energy flow through an ecosystem
b)
Food flowing through an ecosystem
c)
Consumers going into other consumers
d)
Who eats who
2.
What are plants called in a food chain?
a)
Producers
b)
Consumers
c)
Decomposers
d)
Scavengers
3.
Which is the correct food chain order?
a)
Plant-->1st Consumer--> 2nd Consumer
b)
Plant <-- 1st Consumer <-- 2nd Consumer
c)
2nd consumer --> 1st consumer --> Plant
d)
1st Consumer --> 2nd consumer --> Plant
4.
Which of these is true about this food web?
a)
The Owl gets its energy from the producer.
b)
The Lion gets its energy only from a wild cat.
c)
The Kite gets its energy from the goat.
d)
The Mouse is most likely to die, several ways.
5.
What is this called?
a)
Food Web
b)
Food Chain
c)
Abiotic Factors
6.
Which of the following is a herbivore?
a)
cricket
b)
frog
c)
hawk
d)
shrew
7.
An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste
a)
producer
b)
consumer
c)
decomposer
d)
autotroph
8.
A secondary consumer
a)
eats primary consumers
b)
eats producers
c)
eats plants
9.
Which of the following illustrates the correct ordering of trophic levels?
a)
decomposers-carnivores-autotrophs-herbivores
b)
herbivores-autotrophs-carnivores-decomposers
c)
producers-herbivores-carnivores-decomposers
d)
carnivores-producers-omnivores
10.
Another name for a consumer is a
a)
heterotroph
b)
autotroph
c)
producer
d)
plant
11.
Another name for a producer is an
a)
heterotroph
b)
autotroph
c)
herbivore
d)
carnivore
12.
Which organism recieves the least amount of energy from the producer?
a)
Owl
b)
Grasshopper
c)
Lilypad
d)
Mouse
13.
Which organism receives the least amount of energy from the producer?
a)
The squirrel
b)
The shrew
c)
The deer
d)
The rabbit
14.
Bacteria, fungi, and earthworms are examples of:
a)
scavengers
b)
predators
c)
prey
d)
decomposers
15.
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.
16.
In the food web shown, which is the tertiary consumer?
a)
large lizard
b)
snake
c)
scorpion
d)
desert fox
17.
In a food chain, the first link (where the energy begins) is always:
a)
a primary consumer
b)
a decomposer
c)
a producer
d)
an omnivore
18.
What are all biotic and abiotic things that interact in an area?
a)
Ecosystem
b)
Environment
c)
Plants
d)
Population
19.
All the living things in an environment
a)
Biotic factors
b)
Traits
c)
Animals
d)
Natural Selection
20.
All the nonliving things in an environment
a)
Ecosystem
b)
Dead Animals
c)
Genes
d)
Abiotic factors
21.
Are passed down to future generations more often
a)
Favorable Adaptations
b)
Evolution
c)
Mutations
d)
Abilities
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