WorksheetsEnergy Flow and Cycles of Matter Vocabulary Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is an organism that can make its own food called?
Producer
Consumer
Carnivore
Herbivore
What do we call an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms?
Producer
Consumer
Herbivore
Carnivore
What is the name for an organism that only eats plants?
Producer
Herbivore
Carnivore
Omnivore
What is the name for an organism that ONLY eats other animals?
Producer
Herbivore
Carnivore
Omnivore
What do we call an organism that eats BOTH plants and animals?
Producer
Herbivore
Carnivore
Omnivore
What is a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms called?
Scavenger
Decomposer
Omnivore
Gross
What is an organism that breaks down biotic wastes and dead organisms and returns nutrients back in the ecosystem called?
Scavenger
Decomposer
Omnivore
Gross
Which of these shows the most detailed and realistic way that energy flows from organism to organism in an ecosystem?
Food chain
Food web
Energy pyramid
Can energy ever be created or destroyed?
Yes
No
Which of these is the process where liquids change into a gas?
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Melting
Which of these is the process in which a gas changes to a liquid?
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Freezing
What do we call any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface?
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Boiling
What do we call the process where water recycles by changing form from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again?
Water cycle
Oxygen cycle
Carbon cycle
Nitrogen cycle
What do we call the circulation of carbon through the atmosphere to organisms and back again?
Water cycle
Carbon cycle
Oxygen cycle
Nitrogen cycle
What is the process where oxygen is exchanged between the earth and the atmosphere called?
Water cycle
Carbon cycle
Oxygen cycle
Nitrogen cycle
What do we call all of the nonliving and living factors that interact?
Ecosystem
Ecology
Habitat
Niche
