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Ch. 5 Ecosystems

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an ecosystem?

a)

Just 1 living thing

b)

Living and nonliving parts interacting in an environment.

c)

A living thing that makes its own food.

2.

What is a population?

a)

A group of living things of the same species.

b)

All the populations living in the same place.

c)

A natural home of a living thing.

3.

What is a community?

a)

Living and nonliving parts interacting in an environment.

b)

All the populations living in the same place.

c)

A living thing that eats other living things.

4.

What is a habitat?

a)

A living things that makes its own food.

b)

Just 1 living thing.

c)

The natural home of a plant or animal.

5.

What is a producer?

a)

It breaks down waste, dead plants and animals.

b)

A living things that makes its own food.

c)

A living thing that eats other living things.

6.

What is a consumer?

a)

It breaks down waste, dead plants and animals.

b)

A living things that makes its own food.

c)

A living thing that eats other living things.

7.

A decomposer gets the energy and nutrients by......

a)

breaking down waste, dead plants and animals.

b)

A living things that makes its own food.

c)

A living thing that eats other living things.

8.

What is a food chain?

a)

Many living things that cannot make food.

b)

When plants and animals die.

c)

is the transfer of energy from one living thing to another.

9.

Choose examples of producers.

a)

animals and humans

b)

trees and flowers

c)

mushrooms and fungus

10.

Choose examples of consumers.

a)

animals and humans

b)

trees and flowers

c)

mushrooms and fungus

11.

Choose examples of decomposers.

a)

animals and humans

b)

trees and flowers

c)

mushrooms and fungus

12.
An inherited trait that helps those organisms that have it to survive
a)
niche
b)
structure
c)
characteristic
d)
adaptation
13.
Where does the energy start in this food chain?
a)
Plant
b)
Sun
c)
Deer
d)
Wolf
14.
If an animal migrates then they
a)
find a hole to sleep in
b)
change the color of their fur
c)
travel to a warmer location
15.
In the winter, the birds will __________ to a warmer climate.
a)
migrate
b)
hibernate
c)
tropical
d)
habit
16.
Animals hibernate in ______________.
a)
winter
b)
spring
c)
summer
d)
fall
17.

What does it mean to hibernate?

a)

To eat all the oreos

b)

To sleep for an extended period of time during the winter

c)

To travel to a warmer location

18.

Select 2 animals that migrate.

a)

Canadian Geese

b)

Monarch Butterflies

c)

Polar Bears

19.

Select 2 animals that hibernate.

a)

bears

b)

dogs

c)

groundhog

20.

Select 2 animals that adapt during winter.

a)

cats

b)

rabbit

c)

deer

21.

_________ means to use less of something?

a)

Reduce

b)

Recycle

22.

To _________ is to use something more than once.

a)

reduce

b)

reuse

23.

The students toss their papers in the _________ bin instead of the trash can.

a)

reducing

b)

recycling

24.

The old cardboard was used to make new boxes. The cardboard was _________.

a)

recycled

b)

reduced

25.

Ava brings her lunch to school in the same bag each day. She _________ her lunch bag.

a)

reuses

b)

recycles

26.

Mr. Tucker collects his used metal cans and plastic bottles. He drops them off at the _________ center once a month.

a)

reducing

b)

recycling