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Energy Flow and Cycles of Matter Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an organism that can make its own food called?

a)

Producer

b)

Consumer

c)

Carnivore

d)

Herbivore

2.

What do we call an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms?

a)

Producer

b)

Consumer

c)

Herbivore

d)

Carnivore

3.

What is the name for an organism that only eats plants?

a)

Producer

b)

Herbivore

c)

Carnivore

d)

Omnivore

4.

What is the name for an organism that ONLY eats other animals?

a)

Producer

b)

Herbivore

c)

Carnivore

d)

Omnivore

5.

What do we call an organism that eats BOTH plants and animals?

a)

Producer

b)

Herbivore

c)

Carnivore

d)

Omnivore

6.

What is a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms called?

a)

Scavenger

b)

Decomposer

c)

Omnivore

d)

Gross

7.

What is an organism that breaks down biotic wastes and dead organisms and returns nutrients back in the ecosystem called?

a)

Scavenger

b)

Decomposer

c)

Omnivore

d)

Gross

8.

Which of these shows the most detailed and realistic way that energy flows from organism to organism in an ecosystem?

a)

Food chain

b)

Food web

c)

Energy pyramid

9.

Can energy ever be created or destroyed?

a)

Yes

b)

No

10.

Which of these is the process where liquids change into a gas?

a)

Evaporation

b)

Condensation

c)

Precipitation

d)

Melting

11.

Which of these is the process in which a gas changes to a liquid?

a)

Evaporation

b)

Condensation

c)

Precipitation

d)

Freezing

12.

What do we call any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface?

a)

Evaporation

b)

Condensation

c)

Precipitation

d)

Boiling

13.

What do we call the process where water recycles by changing form from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again?

a)

Water cycle

b)

Oxygen cycle

c)

Carbon cycle

d)

Nitrogen cycle

14.

What do we call the circulation of carbon through the atmosphere to organisms and back again?

a)

Water cycle

b)

Carbon cycle

c)

Oxygen cycle

d)

Nitrogen cycle

15.

What is the process where oxygen is exchanged between the earth and the atmosphere called?

a)

Water cycle

b)

Carbon cycle

c)

Oxygen cycle

d)

Nitrogen cycle

16.

What do we call all of the nonliving and living factors that interact?

a)

Ecosystem

b)

Ecology

c)

Habitat

d)

Niche