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OUR ENVIRONMENT

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When is World Environment Day is celebrated?

a)

5 February

b)

5 August

c)

5 June

d)

5 may

2.

Which of the following is a primary consumer in a grassland ecosystem?

a)
b)
c)
d)
3.

What percentage of energy is passed on to next tropic level?

a)

10%

b)

50%

c)

90%

d)

100%

4.

What is this called?

a)

Food Web

b)

Food Chain

c)

Abiotic Factors

d)

Biotic factors

5.

Which organism recieves the least amount of energy from the producer?

a)

Owl

b)

Grasshopper

c)

Lilypad

d)

Mouse

6.
The largest group of organisms found in a food web would be:
a)
Primary Consumers
b)
Producers
c)
Decomposers
d)
Tertiary Consumers
7.

The phenomenon by which toxins concentrate in the organisms at higher trophic levels within an ecosystem is known as...

a)

Biotoxicity

b)

Biomagnification

c)

Eutrophication

d)

Predation

8.

Consider the following food chain:

Algae > Mayfly > Minnow > Trout


In a polluted ecosystem, which organism is likely to have the HIGHEST level of toxic chemicals in its body?

a)

Algae

b)

Mayfly

c)

Minnow

d)

Trout

9.

What does the Ozone in the atmosphere do?

a)

causes the greenhouse effect

b)

causes acid rain

c)

protects the Earth from harmful infrared (IR) rays

d)

protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays

10.

What damage can UV rays cause?

a)

can cause sunburn.

b)

can cause some types of skin cancer.

c)

cataracts.

d)

all of the above

11.

What is causing damage to the Ozone layer?

a)

Methane

b)

Carbon dioxide

c)

CFCs

d)

All of the above

12.

Identify the non- biodegradable substance from the following.

a)

Paper

b)

Tin cans

c)

Vegetable peels

d)

Wood

13.

An artificial ecosystem is

a)

Pond

b)

Forest

c)

Desert

d)

Crop field

14.

Each step of a food chain is called as

a)

Trophic level

b)

Food web

c)

Eutrophication

d)

Biological magnification

15.

Which of the following constitute a food chain?

a)

Grass, tiger and ant

b)

Tiger, goat and human

c)

Goat, human and grass

d)

Human, fish and crab

16.

Calculate the amount of energy available to snake in the given food chain if there is 6500 J of energy available to grass hopper.

Grass ----> grass hopper ---> frog -----> snake

a)

6500 J

b)

650 J

c)

65 J

d)

6.5 J

17.

Why do we need to manage the garbage we produce

i)To improve the health and quality of life

ii)For preventing environmental pollution

iii) To produce more biodegradable plastics

iv) To reduce the strain on natural resources

a)

i and iv

b)

iii and ii

c)

i, ii and iii

d)

i,ii and iv

18.

Non biodegradable waste materials can be treated by composting technique.

a)

true

b)

False

19.

Non biodegradable wastes can be managed by practicing techniques like

a)

Reduce Reuse Reabsorb

b)

Reduce reuse recycle

20.

___________________ are found as an alternative for plastics which are decomposed by microbial action.

a)

PVC

b)

Biodegradable plastics

c)

thermoplastic plastic

d)

thermosetting plastic