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Ecosystem Vocabulary Quiz Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do we call the depiction of the amount of energy in each trophic level of an ecosystem?

a)

food web

b)

energy pyramid

c)

organism relationship

d)

primary consumer

2.

What do we call a living thing, such as an animal or plant, that influences or affects an ecosystem?

a)

biotic factor

b)

abiotic factor

c)

nonliving

d)

granite

3.

What is a nonliving condition or thing that affects an ecosystem and the organisms in it?

a)

biotic factor

b)

abiotic factor

c)

living

d)

squirrel

4.

What do we call an animal that is hunted or seized for food by another animal?

a)

predator

b)

producer

c)

cycad

d)

prey

5.

What do we call an organism that exists by hunting and eating other organisms?

a)

predator

b)

producer

c)

prey

d)

cycad

6.

What do we call all the individuals of one species living in an area?

a)

community

b)

ecosystem

c)

consumers

d)

population

7.

What do we call a carnivore at the top of a food chain; it feeds on other carnivores and consumers?

a)

producer

b)

primary consumer

c)

tertiary consumer

d)

none of these

8.

What do we call a carnivore that feeds on herbivores but not tertiary consumers?

a)

producer

b)

primary consumer

c)

secondary consumer

d)

tertiary consumer

9.

What do we call an animal that feeds on plants? It is often called an herbivore.

a)

producer

b)

primary consumer

c)

secondary consumer

d)

tertiary consumer

10.

This is an organism that is able to make its own food from inorganic substances.

a)

producer

b)

primary consumer

c)

secondary consumer

d)

tertiary consumer

11.

This shows how living things get food. It also shows how nutrients & energy are passed from creature to creature.

a)

biome

b)

resource

c)

interaction

d)

food chain

12.

This shows how organisms relate in all the interrelated food chains of a community.

a)

autotroph

b)

heterotroph

c)

food web

d)

all of these

13.

What do we call a community of living things & the nonliving parts of the environment, interacting as a system?

a)

ecosystem

b)

population

c)

community

d)

none of these

14.

What is an environmental factor that tends to limit population size?

a)

limiting factor

b)

community

c)

population

d)

environment

15.

What is the term for the position or function of an organism in a community of plants and animals?

a)

niche

b)

yoga

c)

x = y+2

d)

none of these