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Exploring Ecosystems

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Look at the picture of an ecosystem. What is the name of this ecosystem?

a)

forest

b)

desert

c)

mountain

d)

ocean

2.

What are all ecosystems made of ?

a)

living things

b)

nonliving things

c)

living and nonliving things

3.

What is a deciduous tree?

a)

a tree with colorful leaves all year

b)

having leaves that stay on the tree all year

c)

having leaves that fall off every year

d)

a tree with no leaves

4.

What is a drought?

a)

a long period without rainfall

b)

to stay alive

c)

a lot of rain

5.

What is a population?

a)

to stay alive

b)

a group of plants or animals of the same kind that live in the same area

c)

a natural material that living things use

6.

What is a resource?

a)

to stay alive

b)

a natural material that living things use

c)

a period without much rainfall

7.

What does survive mean?

a)

to stay alive

b)

to die

c)

to eat

d)

to sleep

8.

What is one nonliving thing that all animals need to survive?

a)

rocks

b)

water

c)

plants

d)

other animals

9.

Where do moles live?

a)

in trees

b)

in the air

c)

in water

d)

underground

10.

How are prairie dogs and burrowing owls connected?

a)

Owls build nests in burrow dug by prairie dogs.

b)

Prairie dogs build nests in burrows dug by owls

c)

Owls and prairie dogs share nests in trees

d)

Owls and prairie dogs both dig holes in the same areas

11.

The owl lives in a hole.

What are the nouns in this sentence?

a)

owl, lives

b)

lives, hole

c)

hole, owl

d)

in, a

12.

What is the verb in this sentence?

The owl lives in a hole.

a)

owl

b)

hole

c)

lives

d)

in

13.

The prairie dog digs.

What is the noun in this sentence?

a)

dog

b)

dig

c)

the

14.

The prairie dog digs.

What is the verb in this sentence?

a)

dog

b)

prairie

c)

digs

d)

the

15.

The trees turned colors.

What are the nouns in this sentence?

a)

trees, turned

b)

the, trees

c)

trees, colors

d)

turned, the

16.

The trees turned colors.

What is the verb in this sentence?

a)

turned

b)

trees

c)

the

d)

colors