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Ecosystems and Classifications

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are some of the limiting factors that affect ecosystems?

a)

Food, Water, Living Space, Light

b)

Food, Water

c)

Living Space, Prey, Water

d)

Prey

2.

What are herbivores?

a)

Things that eat only plants.

b)

Things that are meat-eaters and plant-eaters.

c)

Things that only eat meat.

3.

What are omnivores?

a)

Things that eat plants.

b)

Things that are meat-eaters and plant eaters.

c)

Things that are meat-eaters.

4.

What is a biome?

a)

A large region characterized as having a distinct climate and specific types of plants and animals.

b)

A region in the world.

c)

A place that exists in the ocean.

d)

The weather.

5.

What is a vertebrate?

a)

An animal without a backbone.

b)

An animal with a backbone.

c)

An animal that has distinct body sections.

6.

The uppermost layer of the rainforest is the???

a)

Trees

b)

Canopy

c)

Balloon

d)

Upper Region

7.

Trees that drop their leaves every year are?

a)

Taiga

b)

Pine Trees

c)

Coniferous Trees

d)

Deciduous Trees

8.

Photosynthesis is?

a)

A process that plants use light energy to make sugar.

b)

A process that is produced from water and carbon dioxide.

c)

A change in the growth of a plant.

d)

Plant Tissue

9.

Deserts generally receive approximately how much rain?

a)

20 inches.

b)

10 inches.

c)

25 inches.

d)

5 inches.

10.

The largest zone of life in the ocean is the?

a)

Open-ocean zone.

b)

Coral reef.

c)

Intertidal zone.

11.

The kingdom levels are?

a)

Phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.

b)

Class, family, domain, varieties.

c)

Phylum, order, species.

d)

Domain, class, order, family

12.

What is the protist kingdom made of?

a)

simple many-celled organisms.

b)

fungi.

c)

one-celled organisms.

d)

three-celled organisms.

13.

What are organisms that can make their own food, also known as "self-feeders."

a)

Autotrophs

b)

Heterotrophs

c)

Eukaryotes

d)

Prokaryotes

14.

Vascular plants have which of the following?

a)

Wood, stems, roots

b)

Flowers, roots

c)

Roots, stems, leaves.

15.

Mushrooms, fungus, and some molds are found in the __________ kingdom.

a)

Protist

b)

Bacteria

c)

Fungi

d)

Archaea

16.

Nitrogen fixation is

a)

The changing of nitrogen gas from the air into nitrogen compounds plants can use.

b)

The movement of nitrogen between living things.

c)

Continual movement of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

17.

Tundras have which of the following characteristics?

a)

Snow or ice.

b)

Permafrost.

c)

Many trees.

d)

Warm weather.

18.

The part of the Earth that supports life is the?

a)

Biome.

b)

Biosphere.

c)

Climax community.

d)

Colony.

19.

What is South America's largest rainforest?

a)

The Amazon Rainforest.

b)

The Tropical Rainforest.

c)

The American Rainforest.

20.

Areas where freshwater rivers flow into the ocean are known as?

a)

Freshwater Ecosystems.

b)

Intertidal Zones.

c)

Estuaries.

d)

Valleys.