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Ecosystem Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are abiotic components of an ecosystem?

a)

Plants, animals, and microscopic organisms

b)

Nonliving things like Rocks, water, and air

c)

Animals that eat other animals

d)

Living things and their physical surroundings

2.

What are biotic components of an ecosystem?

a)

Living things like Plants, animals, and microscopic organisms

b)

Rocks, water, and air

c)

Animals that eat other animals

d)

Living things and their physical surroundings

3.

What is an organism?

a)

Plants, animals, and microscopic organisms

b)

Rocks, water, and air

c)

Animals that eat other animals

d)

Living things and their physical surroundings

4.

What is an ecosystem?

a)

Plants, animals, and microscopic organisms

b)

Rocks, water, and air

c)

Animals that eat other animals

d)

Living things and their physical surroundings

5.

What is a producer in an ecosystem?

a)

An animal that eats other animals

b)

An animal that eats plants

c)

A living thing that makes its own food using sunlight

d)

An organism that breaks down dead things into nutrients

6.

What is photosynthesis?

a)

The process by which plants make food by turning sunlight and water into sugar

b)

An animal that eats other animals

c)

An animal that eats plants

d)

An organism that breaks down dead things into nutrients

7.

What is a consumer in an ecosystem? (can be more than one)

a)

An animal that eats other animals

b)

An animal that eats plants

c)

A living thing that makes its own food using sunlight

d)

An organism that breaks down dead things into nutrients

8.

What is a carnivore?

a)

An animal that eats other animals

b)

An animal that eats plants

c)

A living thing that makes its own food using sunlight

d)

An organism that breaks down dead things into nutrients

9.

What is a herbivore?

a)

An animal that eats other animals

b)

An animal that eats plants

c)

A living thing that makes its own food using sunlight

d)

An organism that breaks down dead things into nutrients

10.

What is a food chain?

a)

A line-up of how energy is transferred in an ecosystem

b)

An animal that eats other animals

c)

An animal that eats plants

d)

An organism that breaks down dead things into nutrients

11.

What are decomposers in an ecosystem?

a)

An animal that eats other animals

b)

An animal that eats plants

c)

A living thing that makes its own food using sunlight

d)

Organisms that break down dead things into nutrients for the soil

12.

What is a food web?

a)

A model of food chains that shows all the different connections in an ecosystem

b)

An animal that eats other animals

c)

An animal that eats plants

d)

An organism that breaks down dead things into nutrients

13.

What is chlorophyll?

a)

The pigment in plants that captures energy from the sun to turn carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and sugar

b)

An animal that eats other animals

c)

An animal that eats plants

d)

An organism that breaks down dead things into nutrients

14.

What is parasitism?

a)

A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is directly harmed

b)

An animal that eats other animals

c)

An animal that eats plants

d)

An organism that breaks down dead things into nutrients

15.

What is mutualism?

a)

A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is directly harmed

b)

A relationship in which both organisms benefit

c)

An animal that eats plants

d)

An organism that breaks down dead things into nutrients