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WorksheetsUnit 1 - Quiz #3
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is the ultimate ORIGINAL source of energy for living things
a)
Sugar
b)
Sun
c)
Moon
d)
Carbon Dioxide
2.
What gas is released by plants during photosynthesis?
a)
sulfur
b)
carbon dioxide
c)
oxygen
d)
hydrogen
3.
What is a producer?
a)
an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms
b)
an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food
c)
an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste
d)
an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food
4.
An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms is a ______________.
a)
producer
b)
consumer
c)
decomposer
d)
prey
5.
An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste is a(an) ___________.
a)
producer
b)
consumer
c)
decomposer
d)
autotroph
6.
What is a carnivore?
a)
an animal that gets energy by eating other animals
b)
An animal that gets energy by eating only plants
c)
an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and animals
d)
an animal that makes its own energy through photosynthesis
7.
A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________.
a)
ecosystem
b)
food web
c)
environment
d)
population
8.
What does a food chain represent?
a)
How all living organisms within a habitat are connected.
b)
All of the things that a particular animal eats.
c)
How plants create their own food.
d)
A single path of energy transfer within a habitat.
9.
What does not produce carbon dioxide?
a)
Photosynthesis
b)
Burning Fossil Fuels
c)
Cellular respiration
d)
Plants decaying
10.
What follows evaporation during the water cycle? How does this occur?
a)
Water evaporates into water vapor
b)
Water vapor condenses and forms a cloud
c)
Water precipitates to the ground
d)
Water runs down into the hydrosphere
11.
What is the water cycle?
a)
the 3 forms of water
b)
the movement of water on, above, or below the surface of the Earth
c)
when water melts
d)
when clouds form
12.
Any type of liquid or solid water that falls to earth's surface
a)
evaporation
b)
condensation
c)
precipitation
d)
runoff
13.
Process of liquid water changing into a gas
a)
evaporation
b)
condenstaion
c)
precipitation
d)
transpiration
14.
How much new water does the water cycle produce each day?
a)
1 gallon
b)
100 gallons
c)
1,000,000 lagoons
d)
none
15.
When two or more species compete for the same resources, it is called ...
a)
predation
b)
bioinvasion
c)
competition
d)
succession
16.
Goldfish are not natural species to many rivers and lakes, however they grow very large. Why is this?
a)
The goldfish just needed a bigger space
b)
There is more oxygen for the goldfish in rivers and lakes
c)
The goldfish have no natural predators in rivers and lakes and are able to eat up more of the food supply
d)
The goldfish compete against each other, causing them to grow larger.
17.
What are the four factors that can affect ecosystems
a)
Bioinvasion, predation, overpopulation, and weather
b)
Bioinvasion, weather, predation, and competition
c)
Bioinvasion, competition, weather and mutualism
d)
Bioinvasion, parasitism, competion, and biotic factors
18.
What are the products of photosynthesis?
a)
water and carbon dioxide
b)
oxygen and glucose
c)
oxygen and carbon dioxide
d)
oxygen and water
19.
Plants need ________ for photosynthesis
a)
oxygen
b)
soil
c)
carbon dioxide
d)
sugar
20.
What is one of the reactants of cellular respiration?
a)
energy
b)
glucose
c)
carbon dioxide
d)
water
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