WorksheetsMagnasco Life Science Grade 5
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time.
a)
Ecosystem
b)
Population
c)
Producers
d)
Predators
2.
What is the name for an animal that eats only plants?
a)
Carnivore
b)
Prey
c)
Herbivore
d)
Producer
3.
Producers are organisms that make their own food. Which of the following is a producer?
a)
Lion
b)
Shark
c)
Sunflower
d)
Gorilla
4.
A series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another.
a)
Food Chain
b)
Photosynthesis
c)
Commensalism
d)
Ecosystem
5.
An organism that gets its energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms.
a)
Producer
b)
Consumer
c)
Decomposer
d)
Predator
6.
Which one of these animals is NOT a carnivore?
a)
Giraffe
b)
Lion
c)
Jaguar
d)
Cheetah
7.
Which one of these relationships is an example of "predator-prey?"
a)
Dog-Cat
b)
Lion-Zebra
c)
Mouse-Seeds
d)
Wolf-Velociraptor
8.
What is the name for all of the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions?
a)
Family Group
b)
Species
c)
Population
d)
Ecosystem
9.
This word is another name for a living thing.
a)
Organism
b)
Object
c)
Operation
d)
Omnivore
10.
What is photosynthesis?
a)
Using lasers to destroy your enemies.
b)
Putting all of your pictures together in one group.
c)
The process by which plants make their own food.
d)
What happens when you take too many "selfies."
11.
Which one of these is NOT a reason an animal can become an endangered species?
a)
Too many of them have been killed by hunters.
b)
Their food sources have become scarce.
c)
New predators have invaded the area.
d)
They find new sources of food.
12.
What is a consumer?
a)
An animal that only eats other animals.
b)
A plant.
c)
An organism that cannot make their own food.
d)
A vegetarian.
13.
What is the name for a long-term relationship between two different organisms?
a)
Symbiosis
b)
Producer
c)
Ecosystem
d)
Population
14.
Raccoons eat bugs, fish, plants and trash. This means that raccoons are:
a)
Carnivores
b)
Producers
c)
Herbivores
d)
Omnivores
15.
This is a diagram that combines many food chains and uses arrows to show the energy relationship among organisms.
a)
Ecosystem
b)
Food Chain
c)
Food Web
d)
Symbiosis
16.
This is an example of a relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits and the other neither benefits nor is harmed.
a)
Commensalism
b)
Parasitism
c)
Predator-Prey
d)
Mutualism
17.
In this type of relationship BOTH organisms benefit. For example, a cleaner shrimp will eat parasites off of a moray eel, which feeds the shrimp and helps the eel avoid disease.
a)
Predator-Prey
b)
Commensalism
c)
Mutualism
d)
Ecosystem
18.
This is when one organism feeds off of another organism, or "host."
a)
Parasitism
b)
Mutualism
c)
Producer
d)
Consumer
19.
This is an example of a fast change that can happen to an environment.
a)
A volcano erupts.
b)
Erosion.
c)
Glaciers melting.
d)
The climate changes.
20.
What is conservation?
a)
Farming.
b)
An attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes.
c)
Picking up trash from a beach.
d)
Pollution.
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