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Chapter 4 - Ecosystems

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is NOT a living thing in an ecosystem?

a)

plants

b)

animals

c)

insects

d)

water

2.

What can cause changes in an enviornment?

a)

plants

b)

animals

c)

humans

d)

all of the above

3.

What are examples of nonrenewable resources?

a)

fossil fuels

b)

water

c)

oxygen

d)

plants

4.

What is NOT a type of fossil?

a)

mold

b)

extinct

c)

trace

d)

cast

5.

What do we call the timeline of the history of the earth?

a)

fossil fuel

b)

geography

c)

geographic time scale

d)

mold fossil

6.

A species that no longer exists

a)

Paleontologist

b)

population

c)

extinct

d)

competition

7.

All the living and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact

a)

competition

b)

extinct

c)

population

d)

ecosystem

8.

This occurs when two or more living things need the same resources

a)

competition

b)

population

c)

renewable resources

d)

conservation

9.

Resources that can be replaced

a)

natural resources

b)

renewable resources

c)

nonrenewable resource

d)

resources

10.

a resource that is not easily replaced

a)

natural resources

b)

renewable resource

c)

nonrenewable resource

d)

resources

11.

The struggle among organisms for the same limited resources

a)

food web

b)

food chain

c)

competition

d)

environment

12.

A diagram that combines many food chains into one picture

a)

food chain

b)

food web

c)

competition

d)

environment

13.

Any substance that damages the environment

a)

competition

b)

predator

c)

pollution

d)

conservation

14.

Which is NOT habitat

a)

Grasslands

b)

Ice Caps

c)

Desert

d)

Rain forest

15.

All the members of one species

a)

extinct

b)

population

c)

ecosystem

d)

paleontologist

16.

a scientist who study fossils

a)

competition

b)

paleontologist

c)

renewable resources

d)

ecosystem

17.

Which ecosystem is the driest?

a)

tropical rain forest

b)

grassland

c)

desert

d)

tundra

18.

What kind of fuel comes from the remains of organisms that lived millions of years ago?

a)

fossil gases

b)

fossil fuels

c)

dinosaur fuel

d)

decomposed fuel

19.

the area of place where an organism lives

a)

ecosystem

b)

habitat

c)

address

d)

land or sea

20.

True or False: All ecosystems are exactly the same

a)

True

b)

False