WorksheetsEcology
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following is an organism that eats only meat?
a)
herbivore
b)
carnivore
c)
omnivore
2.
Which of the following terms describes an area where an organism lives?
a)
community
b)
habitat
c)
area
3.
Which is represented by all of the bullfrogs living around a pond?
a)
community
b)
habitat
c)
population
4.
Which is an example of a parasitic relationship?
a)
a bee pollinates a flower
b)
a tapeworm takes nutrients from a dog
c)
an orchid lives in a tree but does not harm the tree
5.
In which type of relationship do both species benefit?
a)
parasitism
b)
mutualism
c)
commensalism
6.
Barnacles grow on whales. Whales give the barnacles a place to live but the barnacles do not help or harm the whale. Which type of relationship is this?
a)
commensalism
b)
mutualism
c)
parasitiesm
7.
An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:
a)
Autotroph
b)
Producer
c)
Consumer
d)
Mutualist
8.
Consumer that eats plants
a)
heterotroph
b)
herbivore
c)
producer
d)
community
9.
What does a food web represent?
a)
All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
b)
The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
c)
A single pathway or energy flow between organisms.
d)
How carnivores get their food.
10.
Where an organism lives
a)
habitat
b)
niche
c)
heterotrogh
d)
biosphere
11.
An illustration that uses arrows to show the MANY possible directions in which matter and energy can pass through the organisms in an ecosystem.
a)
Food chain
b)
Food web
c)
Energy Pyramid
d)
Succession Map
12.
The nonliving aspects of an ecosystem.
a)
Abiotic factors
b)
Biotic factors
13.
A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.
a)
Population
b)
Community
c)
Habitat
d)
Ecosystem
14.
plants that convert energy from the sun
a)
decomposer
b)
primary consumer
c)
secondary consumer
d)
producer
15.
Different populations living and interacting with each other in the same area
a)
Biome
b)
Ecosystem
c)
Community
d)
Niche
16.
What happens when different species try to occupy the same niche?
a)
The species compete with each other
b)
The species cooperate with each other
c)
The species coexist with each other
d)
All of the above
17.
What is a niche?
a)
The habitat that an organism lives in
b)
An organism’s “role” in an ecosystem
c)
A type of consumer
d)
The relationship between a producer and consumer
18.
The first organism in a food chain is ALWAYS a:
a)
producer
b)
consumer
c)
decomposer
d)
Any of the above
19.
What is biodiversity?
a)
The different ways species reproduce
b)
The degree of variation of life on Earth
c)
A way to describe similarities between different species
d)
The process of creating new species
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