WorksheetsEnvironmental Unit 5
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the lowest consumer (above a producer)?
a)
Primary
b)
Secondary
c)
Tertiary
d)
Quadernary
2.
Decomposes eat_______.
a)
Plants
b)
Meat
c)
Plants and Meats
d)
Dead things
3.
What is an example of a producer?
a)
Seal
b)
Fungus
c)
Green Plants
d)
Decomposers
4.
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
a)
Carbon
b)
Nitrogen
c)
Oxygen
5.
Which of these is not a cycle that we talked about in class?
a)
Nitrogen
b)
Carbon
c)
Oxygen
d)
Phosphorous
6.
Which of these would most likely occur after a lava flow goes through an area?
a)
Primary Succession
b)
Secondary Succession
7.
Areas that are disturbed by flood will most likely undergo what?
a)
Primary Succession
b)
Secondary Succession
8.
What is not a characteristic of a climax community?
a)
Final
b)
Stable
c)
Will soon be destroyed
d)
Balanced
9.
What do we call ecosystems that need to be burned in order to survive?
a)
Fire climax societies
b)
Lava islands
c)
Fire walls
d)
Lava lakes
10.
Which of these would have the most biodiveristy?
a)
Russian Steppes
b)
Chinese Rice Fields
c)
Amazon Rain Forest
d)
Andes Mountains
11.
Which of these are not likely to go extinct.
a)
Animals that humans hunt
b)
Animals that require large habitates
c)
Animals that migrate
d)
Animals with large populations
12.
What law protects endangered animals in the US?
a)
Endangered Animals Act
b)
Endangered Plants Act
c)
Endangered Organism Act
d)
Endangered Species Act
13.
What is hereditary material found in the cytoplasm of germ cells called?
a)
Germplasm
b)
DNA
c)
RNA
d)
Nucleous
14.
What is the illegal hunting of species called?
a)
Croaching
b)
Watching
c)
Poaching
d)
Hunting
15.
In the nitrogen cycle, where does the nitrogen go after an organism dies?
a)
Air
b)
Soil
16.
What breaks down the nitrogen in the soil to release it back into the atmopshere?
a)
Fungi
b)
Decomposers
c)
Bacteria
17.
What are species that are essential to an ecosystem called?
a)
Keystone species
b)
Cornerstone species
c)
Foundational species
d)
Organic species
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