WorksheetsInteractions in Ecosystems Test (SOL 3.5)
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 39mins
What are ecosystems?
A community of living things and nonliving things that share a common environment.
Living things including plants and animals.
What are producers?
Plants that make their own food, using sunlight, air, water, and nutrients in the soil.
An animal that eats living things.
An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into smaller pieces to be used again by producers.
What are consumers?
Plants that make their own food, using sunlight, air, water, and nutrients in the soil.
An animal that eats living things.
An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into smaller pieces to be used again by producers.
What are the three types of consumers?
Herbivores
Omnivores
Insectivores
Carnivores
Match the following vocabulary words to its definition.
A consumer that eats only plants.
Herbivores
A consumer that eats both plants and animals.
Omnivores
A consumer that eats only other animals.
Carnivores
An animal that hunts other animals to get its food.
Predator
An animal that is hunted by other animals for food.
Prey
What are decomposers?
Plants that make their own food, using sunlight, air, water, and nutrients in the soil.
An animal that eats living things.
An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into smaller pieces to be used again by producers.
Which is a decomposer?
Fly
Squirrel
Flower
Bird
All the fish in a pond died. What will most likely happen to this ecosystem?
The fish-eating animals will move to another pond.
Flooding will cause the pond to increase in size.
The animals in the ecosystem will all become herbivores.
The pond will dry out to form a desert environment.
Most food chains begin with a –
predator
large animal
carnivore
green plant
What makes its own food using the sunlight, air, and water?
Predators
People
Producers
Populations
The ecosystem shown in the picture is the home to what type of animals?
River animals
Desert animals
Grassland animals
Forest animals
Eastern cottontail rabbits are commonly found in forest communities eating grass, leafy greens, and shrubs. These rabbits can best be described as –
carnivores living in an aquatic ecosystem
producers living in a water-related ecosystem
omnivores in a food chain
herbivores in a terrestrial ecosystem
Arrows in a food chain, always point to the organism –
doing the eating
on top of the food chain
being eaten
known as the producer
Which are fresh-water ecosystems? (Select all)
Swamp
Ocean
Pond
River
An animal that hunts other animals is called a –
producer
decomposer
predator
prey
What would most likely explain why a black bear population would move away from a forest?
The thick trees became too difficult for the bears to freely roam.
There was so much rain that the bears could not get dry.
All the trees in an area were cut down and used for lumber.
Temperatures in the winter months were colder than usual.
Chipmunks run quickly to hide when a hawk circles in the air. To the hawk, the chipmunk is –
a producer
its prey
a consumer
its ecosystem
What term would best describe this consumer?
Omnivore
Carnivore
Producer
Herbivore
What are the living and nonliving components in the following ecosystem?
TERMS:
sunlight
plankton
soil
air
decomposer
sunlight
soil
air
plankton
decomposer
What is the main source of energy in this food chain?
Sun
Grass
Zebra
Cheetah
Ecosystems are complex and diverse. They –
have more nonliving components than anything else
protect habitats through conservation
contain both living and nonliving components
measure their success by the number of living creatures
What are examples of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems?
ECOSYSTEMS:
marsh
swamp
desert
grassland
ocean
forest
river
rainforest
marsh
swamp
ocean
river
desert
grassland
forest
rainforest
What three animals are part of a rainforest ecosystem?
Monkey
Toucan
Shark
Deer
Lizard
What terrestrial ecosystem is being described in the cause-and-effect chart?
CAUSE: little to no rain
EFFECT: little to no plant life
Rainforest
Desert
Forest
Marsh
Create a food chain using the animals shown in the picture.
Corn
Mouse
Snake
Eagle
