WorksheetsLife Science test
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
If mice eat both acorns and insects they are called
herbivores
scavengers
carnivores
omnivores
Which of these consumers is an herbivore?
lion
deer
spider
snake
If a frog eats a grasshopper that eats grass, the frog is a
producer
secondary consumer
primary consumer
decomposer
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web is called
food chain
energy pyramid
ecosystem
niche
In an energy pyramid, which level has the most available energy?
producer level
primary consumer level
secondary consumer level
tertiary consumer level
How much energy is passed to the next energy level when a cow eats grass?
10%
25 %
63%
90%
An organism that can make its own food is called a
consumer
decomposer
producer
scavenger
Which of the following is a biotic factor in the prairie ecosystem?
Water
Sunlight
Soil
Grass
The place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs is called its a
habitat
population
species
community
Which of the following is an example of a population?
the cats and dogs in your neighborhood
the bushes and grass in a park
the rocks in a rock collection
the gray wolves in a forest
The struggle for food between lions and hyenas is called
competition
predation
symbiosis
parasitism
To carry out photosynthesis, algae and plants use the abiotic factors sunlight, water, and
salt
bacteria
soil
carbon dioxide
Which of the following describes an interaction in which one animal kills and eats another?
competition
symbiosis
predation
mutualism
Which of the following is an example of a predator adaptation?
a porcupine’s needles
a plant’s poisonous chemicals
a shark’s powerful jaws
frog’s bright colors
When a flea is living on a dog, the dog is the
parasite
predator
host
prey
A hawk building its nest on an arm of a saguaro cactus is an example of
mutualism
parasitism
commensalism
predation
If a disease caused one-fourth of the deer population to die, how would the rabbit population most likely be affected?
The rabbit population would get smaller
The rabbit population would get larger
The rabbit population would stay the same
The rabbit population would disappear
Which of the following is not a decomposer?
Mushroom
Bacteria
Algae
Earthworms
What will happen to native fish if an invasive species that is better at eating the zooplankton and phytoplankton is introduced into their lake?
the native fish population will go down
the native fish might start eating the invasive species
the native fish population will die out
all of the answers are possible
Hummingbirds get energy from nectar in flowers. The flowers are pollinated. They both benefit. What type of symbiosis is this?
commensalism
mutualism
parasitism
predation
