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Ecology - Energy Pyramid - Symbiosis

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What limiting factors affect the population in an ecosystem? Select all that apply.

a)

Food

b)

Water

c)

Space

d)

Time

2.

A plover is a little bird that walks around inside a crocodile’s open mouth and cleans between the crocodile’s teeth. What type of relationship is this?

a)

Commensalism

b)

Parasitism

c)

Mutualism

d)

Competition

3.

All consumers could also be called ____________________.

a)

Producers

b)

Autotrophs

c)

Apex Predators

d)

Heterotrophs

4.

If the producers in an ecosystem generate 25000 Joules of energy, how much energy will be available for the Secondary Consumers in this ecosystem?

a)

2500 Joules

b)

50000 Joules

c)

250 Joules

d)

250000 Joules

5.

Which of these are renewable resources? Select all that apply.

a)

Solar

b)

Coal

c)

Wind

d)

Geothermal

6.

Producers such as plants and some bacteria are able to make their own food, so they can also be called _________________.

a)

Autotrophs

b)

Heterotrophs

c)

Chloroplasts

d)

Joules

7.

Foxes, Lynxes, and Rabbits live in Alaska and Canada. A fox likes to eat rabbits. A lynx also likes to eat rabbits. What type of interaction or relationship does the Fox have with the Lynx?

a)

Survival

b)

Competition

c)

Natural Selection

d)

Symbiotic

8.

Foxes, Lynxes, and Rabbits live in Alaska and Canada. A fox likes to eat rabbits. A lynx also likes to eat rabbits. What type of interaction or relationship does the Fox have with the Rabbit?

a)

Competition

b)

Symbiotic

c)

Primary Consumer

d)

Predator - Prey

9.

Work and Energy are both measured in units called ________________.

a)

Newtons

b)

Joules

c)

Watts

d)

Kelvin

10.

Which of the following are non-renewable resources used for energy production? Select all that apply.

a)

Petroleum (Oil)

b)

Coal

c)

Solar

d)

Hyrdoelectric

11.

What term best describes the creature at the top of the energy pyramid in an ecosystem? These creatures eat other consumers and have no natural predators.

a)

Secondary Consumer

b)

Producer

c)

Apex Predator

d)

Heterotroph

12.

If the Law of Conservation of Energy tells us that energy cannot be created or destroyed, then how can energy be "lost" from an ecosystem?

a)

Whenever an organism eats another one, that organism gets all the energy that was inside the one it ate, so energy is not lost.

b)

Living things must expend energy to move & grow. This creates friction, which creates heat, so that energy is "lost" to the ecosystem because it can no longer be used by the next organism as food.

c)

The producers in an ecosystem bring the energy into the ecosystem, but all the energy is lost after being eaten by a primary consumer.

d)

Living things do not have to follow the Law of Conservation of Energy. Life is an exception to this Law.

13.

What term do we use to describe an organism that balances an entire ecosystem? If this creature is lost, the entire ecosystem may collapse.

a)

Keystone Species

b)

Primary Consumer

c)

Energy Controller

d)

Adaptable Species

14.

If the secondary consumers have 90 Joules of energy, how much energy must have been brought into the ecosystem by the producers?

a)

900 Joules

b)

180 Joules

c)

9000 Joules

d)

45 Joules