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Ecosystems Review

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What type of organism makes its own food?
a)
consumer
b)
carnivore
c)
producer
d)
animal
2.
All energy on Earth ultimately comes from what source?
a)
Water
b)
Sun
c)
Consumers
d)
Oxygen
3.
This organism recycles nutrients back into the soil when it breaks down dead stuff
a)
producers
b)
consumers
c)
decomposers
4.
All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.
a)
community
b)
habitat
c)
population
d)
ecosystem
5.

Consumes plants and/or animals in order to get energy

a)

producer

b)

consumer

c)

decomposer

6.
Shows how food energy moves among organisms.
a)
adaptation
b)
food chain
7.
A living thing is ________ when there are no more of its kind alive.
a)
endangered
b)
fossils
c)
threatened
d)
extinct
8.
a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things
a)
food chain
b)
food web
9.
What is the producer in this food chain?
a)
grass
b)
grasshopper
c)
frog
d)
hawk
10.

In this food chain, if the lion became scarce, what would happen to the deer population?

a)

The deer population would decrease.

b)

The deer population would increase.

c)

The deer population would stay the same.

d)

The deer population would become extinct.

11.

If there are too many of certain type of plant or animal in an ecosystem they would be considered __________________.

a)

Rare

b)

Scarce

c)

Over-abundant

d)

crowded

12.

If the grass didn't get enough rain and died what would be the first thing to happen?

a)

The grasshopper population would increase.

b)

The hawk population would increase

c)

The snake population would decrease.

d)

The grasshopper population would decrease.

13.

Plants are important because they...

a)

produce food.

b)

consume oxygen.

c)

produce food and oxygen.

d)

produce oxygen.

14.

What would happen first if there were an increase in the killer whale population?

a)

The seal population would increase.

b)

The seal population would decrease.

c)

The seal population would become over-abundant.

d)

The penguins population would increase.