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Sicience Review Ecosystems and Biomes

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is population?

a)

Is all the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem.

b)

It shows a savannah ecosystem in Africa.

c)

Some plants and animals have adapted to the limited water supply.

d)

Is all the living and non living things in an environment and the many ways they interact.

2.
Where  does  the energy of most of the ecosystems come from?
a)
Batteries 
b)
Air
c)
Sun
d)
Electricity
3.
The way that organims are organized is...
a)
The habitat
b)
The team
c)
The organization
d)
The niche
4.

Where do all life forms get their energy?

a)

Food

b)

Water

c)

Plants

d)

The Sun

5.
An animal that eats other animals is a....
a)
carnivore
b)
omnivore
c)
herbivore
d)
decomposer
6.
Animals that are being hunted and eaten by predators.
a)
prey
b)
extinct
7.
An animal that eats only plants is an...
a)
carnivore
b)
omnivore
c)
herbivore
d)
decomposer
8.

A food chain is:

a)

an animal that eats only plants.

b)

a diagram that shows how energy moves from one organism to another. (Grass>Mouse>Owl)

c)

An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.

9.
Which is the correct food chain order?
a)
Plant-->1st Consumer--> 2nd Consumer 
b)
Plant <-- 1st Consumer <-- 2nd Consumer
c)
2nd consumer     --> 1st consumer  --> Plant
d)
1st Consumer      --> 2nd consumer --> Plant
10.

A place where animals live is __________.

a)

role

b)

heredity

c)

covering

d)

habitat

11.

If an animal is using color or shape to hide, that would be an example of ____________________.

a)

claws

b)

sharp teeth

c)

migration

d)

camouflage

12.
What is this biome?
a)
Arctic Tundra
b)
Desert
13.
What is this biome?
a)
Grassland
b)
Desert
14.
What is this biome?
a)
Desert
b)
Arctic Tundra
c)
Tropical Rainforest
15.
What is this biome?
a)
Desert
b)
Arctic Tundra
16.
What is this biome?
a)
Deciduous Forest
b)
Tropical Rainforest
17.
Biotic factors of an ecosystem are:
a)
non-living
b)
plants
c)
living thing
d)
soil
18.

Which biome is home to cacti, scorpions, coyotes, kangaroo rats, and lizards?

a)

Desert

b)

Temperate grasslands

c)

Temperate forest

d)

Taiga

e)

Tropical rainforest

19.

The three-toed sloth is adapted to living in a hot, humid climate with lush vegetation and no seasons. What biome would you most liked find this organism?

a)

Temperate Deciduous Forest (Temperate Forest)

b)

Tropical Rainforest

c)

Savanna

d)

Taiga

e)

Desert

20.

In which biome would you MOST LIKELY find this organism?

a)

Savanna

b)

Temperate deciduous forest

c)

Temperate grassland

d)

Tundra

e)

Tropical rainforest

21.

Which animal would be found in the African grassland?

a)

zebra

b)

sloth

c)

polar bear

d)

brown bear

22.

A community is a level in organization that is....

a)

made of populations of different species that live in the same place and interact.

b)

a single individual species of organisms that are similar.

c)

all the individual organisms of the same species in the same place.

23.

The non-living parts of an organism's environment are called...

a)

community

b)

biotic factors

c)

habitat

d)

abiotic factors

24.

The largest population an area can support is called its...

a)

carrying capacity

b)

limited factor

c)

adaptation

d)

biotic factor

25.

This is something in an environment like food, water or space that causes a population to decrease.

a)

predation

b)

birth rate

c)

limiting factor

d)

death rate

26.

All the different populations that live together in an area is the definition of ____________.

a)

Ecosystem

b)

Community

c)

Population

d)

Organism

27.

All the members of one species in a particular area is the definition of ____________.

a)

Ecosystem

b)

Community

c)

Population

d)

Organism

28.

What is adaptation?

a)

The natural behaviour of an animal

b)

Movement from one place to another

c)

The change of a certain physical quality to survive in the environment

d)

Loss of a species of living creatures

29.
Which feature helps an animal hide from other animals?
a)
looking like a dangerous animal
b)
being the same color as the place it lives (camoflauge)
c)
having sharp claws or a strong shel
d)
having only a few young and caring for them
30.
Which of the following symbiotic relationships is considered parasitic?
a)
Ticks feeding on a dog
b)
Bees transporting pollen from flowers
c)
Pilotfish swimming under sharks
d)
Birds eating the insects fromo the back of hippo
31.
Which of the examples below can BEST be described as mutualism between animals?
a)
A tapeworm lives in the intestine of a bird and consumes the food that the bird has eaten
b)
Mountain lions and wolves fight each other for the same deer
c)
A bird eats parasites off a rhinoceros while the rhinoceros provides protection to the bird
d)
Rats live in the garbage dump of a town and rarely interact with people
32.

The close relationship between two different species in an ecosystem

a)

Biosphere

b)

Ecology

c)

Symbiosis

d)

Environment

33.
The largest number of organisms that the environment can support. 
a)
Carrying Capacity
b)
Limiting Factor