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Benchmark 2 Practice

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The study of biotic factors and their abiotic environment

a)

Ecology

b)

Chemistry

c)

Biology

d)

Physics

2.

Snails, frogs, turtles are all ____________ because they are all _____________.

a)

abiotic; non-living

b)

biotic; living

c)

abiotic; living

d)

biotic; non-living

3.

What do you call something that is NON-LIVING?

a)

biotic

b)

abiotic

c)

dead

4.

One living thing is known as a(n)...

a)

ecosystem

b)

community

c)

population

d)

organism

5.

What is an organism called that makes its own food by converting sunlight into chemical energy?

a)

consumer

b)

decomposer

c)

producer

6.

Which type of consumer eats only plants?

a)

herbivore

b)

carnivore

c)

omnivore

d)

scavenger

7.

Which type of consumer finds and eats the leftovers of other organisms? (They don't generally kill their food.)

a)

herbivore

b)

carnivore

c)

omnivore

d)

scavenger

8.

the role a species plays in its community

a)

niche

b)

competition

c)

carrying capacity

d)

prey

9.

Competition is when 2 or more organisms compete for a limited resource.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Which of these show the transfer of energy in an ecosystem?

a)

competition

b)

food chain

c)

eating bar graph

d)

ecograph

11.

What diagram shows the amount of energy available at each level?

a)

food web

b)

food chain

c)

energy pyramid

d)

ecograph

12.

symbiosis where both organisms benefit

a)

parasitism

b)

mutualism

c)

commensalism

13.

symbiosis where one organism is not affected and the other benefits

a)

parsitism

b)

mutualism

c)

commensalism

14.

organism communication related to sight

a)

auditory

b)

visual

c)

tactile

d)

chemical

15.

organism communication related to sound

a)

auditory

b)

visual

c)

tactile

d)

chemical

16.

This is the coldest biome and is very dry. It is known as the cold desert.

a)

taiga

b)

tundra

c)

tropical rainforest

d)

grasslands

17.

the lion king was set in the...

a)

savanna

b)

tundra

c)

taiga

d)

deciduous forest

18.

We live in the...

a)

coniferous forest/ taiga

b)

temperate deciduous forest

c)

prairie

d)

tropical rainforest

19.

This biome has succulent (water-storing) plants because it doesn't rain a lot.

a)

tropical rainforest

b)

temperate deciduous forest

c)

taiga

d)

desert

20.

Sharks live in which biome?

a)

freshwater

b)

marine

21.

Kudzu is originally from Asia, but can now be found in Tennessee. It competes for resources with native plants and is harmful to them. Because of this, kudzu in Tennessee is known as a ...

a)

native species

b)

invasive species

c)

species of origin

d)

abiotic species

22.

resources that can be replaced in a lifetime

a)

renewable resources

b)

nonrenewable resources

c)

extinct resources

d)

forbidden resources

23.

Which is an example of a nonrenewable resource?

a)

solar

b)

coal

c)

wind

d)

biomass

24.

the amount of different kinds of living things in an ecosystem is known as...

a)

eco-friendly

b)

tundra

c)

biodiversity

d)

unsustainable

25.

A prototype is a....

a)

test model

b)

completed product

c)

the final step in the EDP

d)

broken technology