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Characteristics of Living Things/Ecology Review

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 7hrs 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In the food web shown, the rabbit and the grasshopper BOTH eat grass. What type of relationship would the rabbit and grasshopper have with each other?

a)

predation

b)

parasitism

c)

competitive

d)

mutualism

2.

Select ALL of the organisms that use a non-living source for energy.

a)

Palm Tree

b)

Dog

c)

Grass

d)

Grapes

e)

Cow

3.

Select ALL the organisms that are producers in the food web.

a)

corn

b)

dragonfly

c)

eagle

d)

lavender

e)

frog

4.

Select all the primary producers (herbivores) in the food web.

a)

python

b)

butterfly

c)

fruit fly

d)

grasshopper

e)

thrush

5.

Select all the secondary producers (omivores or carnivores) in the food web.

a)

frog

b)

mangoes

c)

rat

d)

wolf

e)

thrush

6.

How do matter and energy move through an ecosystem and organisms?

a)

Matter flows and energy cycles

b)

Matter flows and energy flows

c)

Matter cycles and energy cycles

d)

Matter cycles and energy flows

7.

Of the following, which has the LEAST amount of energy available?

a)

Producer

b)

Tertiary Consumer

c)

Decomposer

d)

Primary Consumer

8.

Of the following, which has the MOST amount of energy available?

a)

Producer

b)

Tertiary Consumer

c)

Decomposer

d)

Primary Consumer

9.

What are 3 characteristics of living organisms? Write complete sentences.

4 lines
10.

What are the similarities between a single-celled organism and the cell of a multicellular organism? Write complete sentences.

4 lines
11.

Because a cell is so small, we can not observe them with a naked eye. In science we use a (a)   to observe them.

12.

A unicellular organism is made of many cells.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Give the definition of a SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION.

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14.

Give the definition of a SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATION.

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15.

Cells are the smallest living unit of matter.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Which organism gets energy by eating other organisms?

a)

Producers

b)

Decomposers

c)

Consumers

17.

Nutrients, such as minerals, are ​nonliving parts of an ecosystem that provide ​matter to living parts.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

A (a)   breaks down consumers and producers and cycle ​matter into the nonliving parts of the ecosystem.

19.

Which recieves the SECOND highest amount of energy?

a)

producers

b)

decomposers

c)

primary consumers

d)

secondary consumers

20.

Give three reasons why only 10% of energy is passed from one trophic level to the next.

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21.

What is the MOST LIKELY effect on the primary producer productivity (how much energy is available) if more primary consumers moved into the ocean ecosystem?

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22.

TERTIARY consumers usually eat....

a)

producers

b)

secondary consumers

c)

primary consumers

d)

decomposers

23.

Which LOSE the most amount of energy?

a)

tertiary consumers

b)

secondary consumers

c)

primary consumers

d)

producers

24.

What is homeostasis? (Write the definition in your own words.)

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25.

In the food web shown, what type of relationship would the mouse and owl have with each other?

a)

predation

b)

parasitism

c)

competitive

d)

mutualism

26.

Summarize all that you have learned from the past week in a paragraph. (Write at least 5 sentences.)

4 lines