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Environmental

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How do trees inhibit the growth of grass during succession?

a)

The sun

b)

Blocks the sunlight

c)

Water

d)

Soil

2.

What type of succession follows natural wildfire?

a)

Primary succession

b)

Secondary succession

c)

Succession

d)

Forest fires

3.

Pond succession- What type of organisms most likely are first found in a pond?

a)

Moss

b)

Green algae

c)

Lichens

d)

Soil

4.

Pond succession- fish are replaced by frogs and turtles. What is most likely responsible for this succession?

a)

Fires

b)

The water drying up and are air breathing organisms

c)

Water

d)

moss

5.

Growth of plants after a forest fire is called ______ succession.

a)

Secondary

b)

Pond

c)

Primary

d)

Desert

6.

Pond succession- What type of organisms dominate the pond climax community?(you will have diagrams)

a)

Trees

b)

Leaves

c)

Soil

d)

Sun

7.

Organisms that obtain energy only from producers are called _______

a)

Herbivores

b)

Omnivores

c)

Heterotrophs

d)

Carnivorous

8.

The process of plant communication changing over time is called _______.

a)

Secondary

b)

Primary

c)

Succession

d)

Herbivore

9.

An animal that eats both plants and meat are called _______.

a)

Carnivore

b)

Herbivore

c)

Biomass

10.

What type of organisms most likely produced soil first in primary succession?

a)

Lichens and moss

b)

Soil

c)

Grass

d)

Tress

11.

What would happen to a food web if all the plants were eliminated by some catastrophic event?

a)

Die out

b)

Live longer

c)

collapse

d)

Breath

12.

What is the main difference between primary and secondary succession?

a)

Primary had soil and secondary does not have soil

b)

Primary does not soil and secondary has soil

c)

Secondary has rock and primary has soil

d)

Both have soil

13.

What moves or flows through a food chain or food web from tropic level to tropic level?

a)

Sun light

b)

Water

c)

Energy

d)

Air

14.

What do the arrows in food chains and webs represent?

a)

Where Energy is being passed

b)

Energy

c)

Air is being passed

d)

Water is being passed

15.

Biomass pyramid - What type of organisms would have the greatest biomass?(you will have a food web)

a)

Producers

b)

Decomposers

c)

Photosynthesis

d)

Light

16.

The term used to describe the many possible feeding relationships in an ecosystem is _______

a)

Food web

b)

Food chain

c)

Food

d)

Sunlight

17.

How much energy is lost at each tropic level?

a)

90%

b)

10%

c)

20%

d)

100%

18.

Where do organisms such as algae and seaweed get their energy

a)

The sun

b)

The moon

c)

Sunlight

d)

Producer

19.

Why do higher levels of an energy pyramid (or an ecosystem) have fewer organisms than the lower levels?

a)

Least amount of energy

b)

Most energy

c)

energy

d)

More sunlight

20.

Bacteria and fungi are classified as what type of organisms in a food chain or food web?

a)

Decomposers

b)

producer

c)

secondary consumers

d)

Primary consumers

21.

What are three words that can be used to describe primary consumers?

a)

Prey

b)

Heterotroph

c)

Herbivores

d)

Omnivore

22.

When provided with a food chain, be able to determine the amount of energy that is passed from one level to another. Ex, producers have 18,000kg of energy. How much would the next level organism receive?

a)

180kg

b)

1800kg

c)

18000kg

d)

18kg

23.

When given a food chain, be able to answer a question such as- how would a specific organism in the food chain be affected if one organism is removed ?

a)

It would make one organism get bigger and the other one get smaller

b)

Smaller

c)

Bigger

d)

Noting would happen

24.

Because of the loss of energy in the form of heat as it flows through a food chain, the total energy is greatest at what level?

a)

The producer

b)

Secondary

c)

Primary

d)

Herbivores

25.

An abandoned concrete parking lot that has been empty and inactive for hundreds of years would most likely go through what type of succesion ______?

List the order for the type of succession.

a)

Primary succession

b)

Secondary succession

c)

Lichens moss , grass ,bush shrubs , trees

d)

Moss, grass, tress, flowers