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Interactions in the Environment Review

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which is NOT a level of an ecosystem?

a)

Decomposer

b)

Producer

c)

Scavenger

d)

Consumer

2.

Producers use (a)   elements to make their own food.

3.

Energy is stored in plants in the form of what? (pick 2)

a)

Sugar

b)

Stem

c)

Flour

d)

Starch

e)

Soda

4.

Plants produce this as waste.

a)

Oxygen

b)

Carbon Dioxide

5.

(a)   are organisms that eat other organisms. (plural)

6.

Which of these is not a type of consumer?

a)

omnivore

b)

herbivore

c)

Plants

d)

carnivore

7.

Scavengers are part of what type of consumer?

a)

carnivores

b)

herbivores

c)

Omnivores

8.

Herbivores eat plants

Carnivores eat meat

Omnivores eat _______

a)

just plants

b)

just meat

c)

plants and meat

d)

nothing

9.

What do detrivores do?

a)

feed on dead

organisms and waste

b)

break down organisms to simple substances

c)

create nutrients for producers to use

d)

Feed on living

organisms and waste

10.

ALL energy in the food chain comes from the (a)  

11.

The transfer of energy goes...

a)

Sun -> consumers -> producers -> decomposers

b)

Producers -> sun -> consumers ->decomposers

c)

decomposers -> sun -> producers -> consumers

d)

Sun -> producers -> consumers -> decomposers

12.

What does the arrow in this picture represent?

(a)  

13.

A food chain is always...

a)

Linear

b)

A Cycle

c)

one size

14.

A food chain always ends with...

a)

The sun

b)

A consumer

c)

A producer

15.

True or False: The amount of links on a food chain are always the same.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Food webs show lots of food (a)   (plural) put together.

17.

What might happen if a link was taken out of a food chain?

See picture for example.

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18.

Food chains and food webs show the transfer of

a)

Time

b)

Heat

c)

Light

d)

Energy

19.

In an energy pyramid, energy travels from the ___________ to the __________

a)

Bottom to the top

b)

Top to the bottom

c)

Left to the right

d)

Right to the left

20.

There are (a)   (more/less) organisms at the bottom of an energy pyramid.

21.

There is ____ energy at the bottom of an energy pyramid

a)

Some

b)

More

c)

Less

d)

None

22.

As we go up the energy pyramid the amount of organisms (a)   .

(increases/decreases/maintains)

23.

Why do the number of organisms decrease as we move up an energy pyramid?

4 lines
24.

What type of system is the earth?

(a)  

25.

What is meant by a "cycle"?

4 lines
26.

Simple Substances are also known as

a)

Micro-organisms

b)

Organisms

c)

Nutrients

d)

Species

27.

Detrivores and Decomposers act as ________

a)

reducers

b)

reusers

c)

repairers

d)

recyclers

28.

The carbon cycle is part of what type of environmental relationship

a)

Mutualism

b)

Predation

c)

Competition

29.

_____________ are decaying organisms that are far underground.

a)

evaporation

b)

rotting materials

c)

runoff

d)

fossil fuels

30.

Greenhouse gasses have positive and negative effects.

a)

True

b)

False