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Ecosystems

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

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Class
Date
1.

An ____ is all the living and nonliving things that exist and interact in one place.

a)

producers

b)

ecosystem

c)

consumers

d)

population

2.

An ecosystem describes a specific area where the organisms ______ _______ as a unit.

a)

work together

b)

living components

c)

are home

d)

break down

3.

Living components can be sorted into three groups. What are the 3 groups?

a)

fish, water, and sharks

b)

producers, consumers, and decomposers

c)

living, nonliving, and home

d)

basic need, living, and nonliving

4.

A living thing can live only in an environment that meets its ____.

a)

water

b)

community

c)

population

d)

needs

5.

__________ play the role of producers.

a)

animals

b)

sunlight

c)

plants

d)

energy

6.

Plants use energy from ______ to make food.

a)

stars

b)

moon

c)

planets

d)

sunlight

7.

Where does the food chain START?

a)

with consumers that eat grass

b)

with the sun giving energy to producers

c)

with the sun giving energy to consumers

d)

with consumers eating other consumers

8.

Which of the following are factors that could cause extinction?

a)

Destruction of animals' habitat

b)

Climate change

c)

Pollution

d)

Increased human population (more people)

e)

ALL of the above could cause extinction

9.

Human activities that affect ecosystems can be...

a)

Factories, industries, air contamination

b)

Rain, wind, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes…

c)

Pollution, overfishing, forest fires, deforestation

10.

The variety of different life forms in an ecosystem.

a)

biomes

b)

deciduous forest

c)

biodiversity

d)

grassland

11.

Invasive palnts that do not have competitors in their habitats can cause change by...

a)

growing so large they block the sunlight

b)

absorbing more water than other plants

c)

providing food for animals

12.

What does this picture represent?

a)

Animals

b)

Plants

c)

A food chain

13.

What are food webs?

a)

They are made up of many food chains joined together and interconnected.

b)

They are only plants

c)

They are only animals

14.

Some changes that can disrupt the balance of an ecosystem are:

a)

fires burning during vegetation

b)

people cutting down forests to build neighborhoods

c)

droughts taking away the source of water

d)

all of the above