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Biomes, Habitats, & Ecology

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which biome, because of its climate, has the largest number of species of plants and animals?
a)
tundra
b)
desert
c)
tropical rainforest
d)
pine forest
2.
Which major biome is home to cacti, mesquite, white thorn, pack rats, small reptiles, and coyotes?
a)
desert
b)
taiga
c)
tundra
d)
grassland
3.
The most important abiotic factors when studying biomes are...
a)
Food and Water
b)
Water and Sunlight
c)
Temperature and Oxygen
d)
Water and Temperature 
4.
What is the main factor that separates the biomes?
a)
Land
b)
Water
c)
Climate
d)
Longitude
5.
Which biome is the driest?
a)
Desert
b)
Tundra
c)
Taiga
d)
Rainforest
6.
Which biome has wide-open fields of grass?
a)
Taiga
b)
Grasslands
c)
Temperate Forest
d)
Rainforest
7.

Which of the following organisms DO NOT compete for the same food source?

a)

grasshoppers and rabbits

b)

hawks and blue jays

c)

owls and hawks

d)

caterpillars and rabbits

8.

What relationship best describes the relationship between the hare and the lynx?

a)

competition

b)

predator-prey

c)

parasitism

d)

mutualism

9.

How do producers (like plants) get their energy to survive and reproduce?

a)

competing for sunlight

b)

disguising themselves from consumers

c)

releasing more oxygen into the environment

d)

more biotic factors relying on them

10.

Cleaner shrimp get some of their nutrition from eating dead parasites in fish. Which type of relationship is between the shrimp and the fish?

a)

predator-prey

b)

mutualism

c)

parasitism

d)

commensalism

11.

Which type of relationship is harmful to one organism while and beneficial to the other?

a)

parasitism

b)

competition

c)

predator-prey

d)

commensalism

12.

Vultures are important to an ecosystem because they

a)

cause the death of other organisms.

b)

eat plants to limit the producers.

c)

feed on dead animals, which aides in the recycling of environmental materials.

d)

make energy and pass it on to other organisms

13.

Which shows a correct transfer of energy?

a)

grass - sun - rabbit - snake - soil

b)

water - rabbit - flower - hawk - ants

c)

worm - rabbit - snake - hawk - clouds

d)

sun - grass - rabbit - snake - hawk

14.

Which includes all biotic factors?

a)

rock, soil, air

b)

plants, animals, fungi

c)

water, air, soil

d)

bacteria, viruses, water

15.

what is an omnivore?

a)

a meat-eater

b)

a plant-eater

c)

a meat and plant eater

16.

Which BEST explains what would happen if decomposers disappeared in an ecosystem?

a)

everything would stop functioning immediately.

b)

everything would function normally.

c)

the ecosystem would become cleaner

d)

the ecosystem would be overrun with dead matter.

17.
Consumer that eats plants
a)
heterotroph
b)
herbivore
c)
producer
d)
community
18.
Green plants are
a)
producers
b)
consumers
c)
herbivores
d)
omnivores
19.
Organisms that breaks down and absorbs nutrients from dead organisms 
a)
consumer
b)
trophic level
c)
decomposer
d)
species
20.
A place where an organism lives.
a)
Terrain
b)
Habitat
c)
Community
d)
Population