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Life Science vocabulary

Total questions: 48

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An organism that eats grass and insects is

a)

an herbivore

b)

a producer

c)

prey

d)

an omnivore

2.

Some bacteria live in the stomach of a cow. The bacteria helps the cow break down and digest the plant food that the cow eats. The bacteria gets a meal. This is an example of

a)

Commensalism

b)

parasitism

c)

Mutualism

3.

Why does every animal in an ecosystem rely on producers?

a)

producers start all food chains

b)

producers break down dead waste

c)

producers eat consumers

d)

producers recycle

4.

Which organism is a decomposer?

a)

frog

b)

worm

c)

oak tree

d)

grasshopper

5.

Which organisms will you find the most of in an ecosystem?

a)

Consumer

b)

Producer

c)

Decomposer

6.

Plants use photosynthesis to make

a)

water

b)

sunlight

c)

carbon dioxide

d)

sugar

7.

A mink finds a snails and lays them on a rock, He doesn't eat them though. He uses snails as bait. While another animal comes to the rock to eat the snails, the mink jumps out, and catches the animal to eat it. Which type of symbiosis is this?

a)

Commensalism

b)

Mutualism

c)

Parasitism

8.

Mushrooms

a)

Producer

b)

Consumer

c)

Decomposer

9.

What is the definition of predation?

a)

Animal eats another animal

b)

Animal eats a plant

c)

Animal harms a plant

d)

Animal helps another animal

10.

Which of the following is an abiotic factor?

a)

fish

b)

light

c)

toad

d)

fungi

11.

Which of the following is a biotic factor?

a)

fish

b)

light

c)

rock

d)

water

12.

What is the definition of a carnivore?

a)

Eats only plants

b)

Eats only animals

c)

Eats both plants and animals

d)

Eats nothing

13.

What is the definition of a herbivore?

a)

Eats only plants

b)

Eats only animals

c)

Eats both plants and animals

d)

Eats nothing

14.

Which of the following is an example of a omnivore?

a)

Pig

b)

Lion

c)

Giraffe

d)

Tiger

15.

Which type of relationship is a clown fish and a sea anemone an example of?

a)

Mutualism

b)

Parasitism

c)

Commensalism

d)

Predation

16.

What is an example of a producer?

a)

A dandelion

b)

A lion

c)

A bear

d)

A rock

17.

How do consumers get energy?

a)

From eating other organisms

b)

From photosynthesis

c)

Just from absorbing energy through the sun

d)

From outer space

18.
True or false?  All the energy needed for organisms to survive comes directly or indirectly from the sun.
a)
True
b)
False
19.
What is a producer? 
a)
Organism that creates their own food.
b)
Organism that eat other organisms for energy
c)
Organism that eat other dead organisms
20.
What is a consumer? 
a)
Organism that creates their own food.
b)
Organism that eat other organisms for energy
c)
Organism that eat other dead organisms
21.
What is a decomposer? 
a)
Organism that creates their own food.
b)
Organism that eat other organisms for energy
c)
Organism that eat other dead organisms
22.
What do Omnivores eat? 
a)
Plants ONLY 
b)
Animals ONLY
c)
Plants AND Animals
23.
What do Herbivores eat? 
a)
Plants ONLY 
b)
Animals ONLY
c)
Plants AND Animals
24.
What do Carnivores eat? 
a)
Plants ONLY 
b)
Animals ONLY
c)
Plants AND Animals
25.

What is a food chain?

a)

The flow of energy from one thing to another

b)

The way animals eat each other

c)

The way the sun makes everything

d)

How the plants grow

26.

An individual living things,such as animals or a plants,is called an

a)

Animal

b)

plant

c)

Organism

d)

Nutrition

27.
Use the diagram answer the question.
What is a fitting description for this diagram?
a)
A Food Chain
b)
An Ecosystem
c)
A Food Web
d)
Biotic and Abiotic Factors
28.
An organism that eats the producer- (animals that eats plants)
a)
Secondary Consumer
b)
Primary Consumer
c)
Tertiary Consumer
d)
Consumer
29.
An organism that eats the primary consumer.
a)
Primary Consumer
b)
Secondary Consumer
c)
Tertiary Consumer
d)
Producer
30.

A group of the same species of organisms would best be known as a _______________________.

a)

population

b)

community

c)

ecosystem

d)

biome

31.

What are the living and nonliving things in an environment or area?

a)

predator

b)

producer

c)

ecosystem

d)

abiotic factor

32.
Carnivores that eat freshly dead organisms are
a)
herbivores
b)
decomposers
c)
omnivores
d)
scavengers
33.

An organism that eats the primary consumer.

a)

Primary Consumer

b)

Secondary Consumer

c)

Tertiary Consumer

d)

Producer

34.

the process a plant uses to turn sunlight energy into oxygen and food

a)

producer

b)

photosynthesis

c)

chlorophyll

d)

glucose

35.

a simple sugar that plants make for food

a)

stomata

b)

glucose

c)

chlorophyll

d)

photosynthesis

36.

an organism that makes its own food

a)

stomata

b)

glucose

c)

producer

d)

photosynthesis

37.

An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into simpler materials that enrich the soil.

a)

producer

b)

primary consumer

c)

secondary consumer

d)

decomposer

38.

What is the grass in this food chain?

a)

producer

b)

primary consumer

c)

secondary consumer

39.

The snake in this food chain is a

a)

producer

b)

primary consumer

c)

secondary consumer

40.

An organism that gets its energy by feeding on producers or animals that eat producers is called __________

a)

producer

b)

predator

c)

consumer

d)

decomposer

41.

A system of interlocking food chains in an ecosystem or ecological community is called _______

a)

food chain

b)

food web

c)

ecosystem

42.

An animal that naturally preys on others is called _______

a)

abiotic factor

b)

biotic factor

c)

predator

d)

prey

43.

An animal that is hunted by another for food is called _______

a)

abiotic factor

b)

biotic factor

c)

predator

d)

prey

44.

Initial Energy Source; start of all food chains/webs is called _______

a)

sun

b)

habitat

c)

predator

d)

prey

45.

What is this diagram know as?

a)

Food Web

b)

Energy Pyramid

c)

Biomass Chart

d)

Biome

46.
Choose a reason why photosynthesis is important.
a)
It creates oxygen.
b)
It cleanses the soil.
c)
It filters water.
47.

What is an Organism?

a)

any non living thing

b)

any anabiotic thing

c)

any living thing

d)

any rock or mineral

48.

Where does photosynthesis take place?

a)

stem

b)

root

c)

seed

d)

leaf

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