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Life Science

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of these are Ecosystems?

a)

Forests

b)

Dirt

c)

Tundra

d)

Grasslands

2.

What is a species?

a)

An Italian meal eaten at lunch

b)

A group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring

c)

All organisms that live in the same place at the same time

d)

A special role an organism plays within its habitat

3.

What lives in an Ecosystem together with nonliving factors of the environment?

a)

tigers

b)

plants

c)

organisms

d)

consumers

4.

For a population to thrive, what must it have?

a)

food

b)

a beautiful view

c)

water

d)

competition

5.

What is a predator?

a)

A host

b)

A board game

c)

An animal eating the prey

d)

A parasite

6.

What are the 3 groups of consumers?

a)

Omnivore

b)

Producer

c)

Herbivore

d)

Carnivore

7.

Organisms can be divided into 3 main groups: producer, consumer, and decomposer. What is a producer?

a)

an organism that gets its food by eating other organisms

b)

someone who sings

c)

an organism that creates its own food

d)

an organism that feeds on the remains of waste of other organisms

8.

This traces the path of energy as it moves from one organism to the next in an ecosystem.

a)

consumer

b)

prey

c)

scavenger

d)

food chain

9.

Where does energy begin in most ecosystems?

a)

food

b)

sun

c)

water

d)

soil

10.

What are the two factors in every ecosystem?

a)

trees

b)

energy

c)

animals

d)

matter

11.

The continual movement of carbon dioxide and oxygen between living things and the environment is known as....

a)

climate

b)

respiration

c)

carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle

d)

energy pyramid

12.

This occurs whenever more than one individual or population tries to make use of the same limited resources.

a)

competition

b)

peace

c)

community

d)

niche

13.

What is a close relationship between to species?

a)

marriage

b)

symbiosis

c)

pioneer species

d)

colonize

14.

Plants, algae, and some bacteria take in carbon dioxide from the environment and use it to make food. What is this process?

a)

commensalism

b)

consumer

c)

decomposition

d)

photosynthesis

15.

General weather of an area over a long period of time, including seasonal changes.

a)

rain

b)

climate

c)

temperature

d)

humidity

16.

Classify is

a)

to create a biome

b)

to break something apart and put back together

c)

to organize organisms into groups based on similar characteristics

d)

to pick your favorite ice cream

17.

What are three examples of kingdoms?

a)

Vertebrae's

b)

Plant

c)

Fungi

d)

Animal

18.

What is an organism that can make their own food?

a)

ameoba

b)

autotroph

c)

organelles

d)

animals

19.

Single-celled organisms that do not have membrane-bound internal structures are called

a)

phloem

b)

arthropods

c)

prokaryotes

d)

fungi

20.

Animals that have a backbone are

a)

autotrophs

b)

large

c)

producers

d)

vertebrates