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Unit 5: Ecosystems Practice

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Consumers that eat both plants and animals are called

a)

omnivores

b)

carnivores

c)

herbivores

d)

scavengers

2.

If an eagle eats a goat that eats grass, the eagle is a

a)

producer

b)

first-level consumer

c)

second-level consumer

d)

decomposer

3.

Which of the following consumers is a herbivore?

a)

bear

b)

wolf

c)

deer

d)

snake

4.

The role of a grizzly bear is that of a ____________________ because it cannot make its own food.

a)

producer

b)

consumer

5.

Organisms that capture the energy of sunlight to make food are called ___________________

a)

hosts

b)

producers

c)

scavengers

d)

decomposers

6.

Which organisms shown are consumers?

a)

grass, lilies, trees, bushes

b)

grass, frogs, lizard, rocks

c)

lilies, trees, dragon fly, bear

d)

dragon fly, frog, lizard, squirrel, bear

7.

Which resource would plants NOT compete for?

a)

sunlight

b)

water

c)

insects

d)

space

8.

What might a paleontologist conclude about a dinosaur that left fossil footprints of webbed feet?

a)

The dinosaur ran fast.

b)

The dinosaur ate plants.

c)

The dinosaur was large.

d)

The dinosaur could swim.

9.

A(n) __________ includes all living and non-living things in an environment.

a)

population

b)

biome

c)

bitotic element

d)

ecosystem

10.
Biotic means ___________.
a)
biology
b)
beautiful
c)
living
d)
nonliving
11.

A place where an organism lives within an ecosystem is a ______________.

a)

rain forest

b)

burrow

c)

biome

d)

habitat

12.

Relationship between two organisms of different species in which one organism causes harm to another by living in or on it.

a)

parasitism

b)

commensalism

c)

mutualism

13.

What do earthworms, slugs, and mushrooms have to do with soil?

a)

They all live in the soil

b)

They all help organisms decompose into the soil

c)

They all are a vital part of the ecosystem

d)

All of the above

14.

Plants make their own food

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Some organisms use dead things as food matter

a)

True

b)

False

16.

All the energy that organisms get from food matter originally comes from sunlight

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Water, sunlight, and oxygen are all non-living or abiotic things.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Which organisms shown are producers?

a)

grass, lilies, trees, bushes

b)

grass, frogs, lizard, rocks

c)

lilies, trees, dragon fly, bear

d)

dragon fly, frog, lizard, squirrel, bear

19.

Which of the following shows a relationship between a parasite and host?

a)

tick - mosquito

b)

bee - flower

c)

lice - tree

d)

lice - human

20.

Which animal is the odd one out?

raccoon, tiger, cow, shark

(a)  

21.

Which is a behavioral adaptation?

Bears having fur or Sunflowers growing towards the sun

(a)  

22.

Which is a structural adaptation?

Carnivorous plants having a cup or Birds migrating

(a)