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Ecosystem

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an ecosystem?

a)

A community of non-interacting organisms and their physical environment.

b)

A biological community of interacting organisms and their chemical environment.

c)

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

d)

A community of non-interacting organisms and their chemical environment.

2.

What is a biotic factor?

a)

Any non-living component that affects the population of another organism, or the environment.

b)

Any living component that has a population.

c)

Any living component that affects the population of another country.

d)

Any living component that affects the population of another organism, or the environment.

3.

What is a food web?

a)

A system of intraconnecting chains linked together to show the feeding relationships of organisms in an ecosystem.

b)

A system of interconnecting chains linked together to show the feeding relationships of organisms in an ecosystem.

c)

A system of interlocking chains that show a relationship between non-living things.

d)

A system on intralocking chains that show a relationship between non-living things.

4.

What is an abiotic factor?

a)

A living condition or thing, that influences or affects an ecosystem and the organisms in it.

b)

A non-living condition or thing, that does not affect an ecosystem and the organisms in it.

c)

A non-living condition or thing, that influences or affects an ecosystem and the organisms in it.

d)

A living condition or thing, that does not affect an ecosystem and the organisms in it.

5.
What type of organism always starts the food chain?
a)
Producer (Plants)
b)
Consumers (Organisms)
c)
Predators (Organisms)
d)
Decomposers 
6.
What type of organism always ends the food chain?
a)
Producer (Plants)
b)
Consumers (Organisms)
c)
Predators (Organisms)
d)
Decomposers 
7.
What is a carnivore?
a)
An organism that only eats plants
b)
An organism that only eats other animals
c)
An organism that eats plants and animals
8.
What is a omnivore?
a)
An organism that only eats plants
b)
An organism that only eats other animals
c)
An organism that eats plants and animals
9.

An animal that hunts and eats other animals for energy.

a)

prey

b)

predator

c)

decomposer

d)

consumer

10.

Choose the producer.

a)

rock

b)

tree

c)

cow

d)

bird

11.

Explain the flow of energy in this food chain (who passes energy to who).

a)

The hawk gives energy to the snake. The snake gives energy to the mouse. The mouse gives energy to the grasshopper who gives energy to the grass.

b)

The mouse gives energy to the hawk. The snake gives energy to the grasshopper. The grass gives energy to the snake.

c)

The grass gives energy to the grasshopper. The grasshopper gives energy to the mouse. The mouse gives energy to the snake who gives energy to the hawk.

d)

The grass gives energy to the grasshopper. The mouse gives energy to the grasshopper. The mouse gives energy to the snake and to the hawk.

12.

Which of the following acts as secondary consumer?

a)

Grass

b)

Grasshopper

c)

Mouse

d)

Owl

13.
Deforestation causes all of the following except: 
a)
Loss of minerals in the soil
b)
Significant economic benefit for indigenous peoples
c)
Loss of important species
d)
Climate change
14.
Fishermen have harvested certain fish to the point where the population of that fish is decreasing. This level of direct harvesting could cause
a)
ecosystems to be improved for future generations
b)
ecosystems to be severely damaged
c)
the restoration of environmental stability
d)
all other fish species to increase in number
15.

In a meadow ecosystem, a population of rabbits increases. What populations are most likely to increase as a result?

a)

foxes, hawks, and other predators of the rabbits

b)

leafy plants that rabbits eat

c)

rabbits that live elsewhere

d)

worms that live in the meadow soil

16.
When organisms move into and join a new population
a)
Immigration
b)
Birth Rate
c)
Death Rate
d)
Emigration
17.
When organisms leave a population and move away
a)
Emigration
b)
Immigration
c)
Birth Rate
d)
Death Rate
18.

Number of births each year per 1,000 people

a)

birth rate

b)

population growth

c)

population density

d)

migration

19.

In order for population to grow

a)

death rate must be higher than birth rate

b)

heart rate must be lower than death rate

c)

birth rate must equal death rate

d)

birth rate must be higher than death rate

20.
One reason for a rapid population growth is...
a)
an increase in pull factors.
b)
declining death rates. 
c)
a sparse population density. 
d)
internal migration.