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Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 1hrs 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What does an atom consist of?
a)
Solids, liquids, gasses
b)
Protons and solids
c)
Protons, neutrons, and electrons
d)
Nothing
2.
What does the Conservation of Mass mean?
a)
Matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
b)
Matter cannot be transformed.
c)
You can only create as much matter as you destroy.
3.

When matter changes appearance but remains the same substance, it has gone through a...

a)

physical change

b)

chemical change

4.
Which of the following could indicate a chemical change? 
a)
All of the answers could indicate Chemical Change 
b)
a color change has occurred 
c)
bubbles appear 
d)
creation of one or more new chemical products 
5.

Materials made by humans through chemically changing natural resources are called?

a)

Nonrenewable Resources

b)

Synthetic Materials

c)

Renewable Resources

6.

Natural resources are?

a)

Resources that exist within the environment without humans having to intervene, or put them there.

b)

Resources that exist within the environment through due to human actions.

c)

Organic substrates found deep within the earth's lithosphere

7.

Which of the following is NOT a natural resource?

a)

wood

b)

cotton

c)

oil

d)

plastic

e)

coal

8.

What has to be true about an object for it to have kinetic energy?

a)

it must be moving

b)

it must be elevated

c)

it must be experiencing a net force

d)

it must be accelerating

9.
What energy do you produce riding your bike? __________
a)
Sound Energy
b)
Mechanical Energy
c)
Light Energy
d)
Electrical Energy
10.
When does an object have no kinetic energy?
a)
when it is at rest
b)
when it is moving very slowly
c)
when the only force that is acting on it is gravity
d)
when it has no electrical charge
11.

What is energy?

a)

The pivot point allowing a lever to move

b)

A push or a pull

c)

Measurement of weight

d)

The ability to move or allow something to move

12.

What is an example of potential energy?

a)

A book sitting on a shelf

b)

A car moving down the highway

c)

A person playing basketball

d)

Both B and C

13.
Gravity is a force that ─
a)
pulls objects down.
b)
pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
c)
pushes objects into the air.
d)
has no effect on objects.
14.

At point 1, what is the gravitational potential energy (GPE)?

a)

4 J

b)

50 J

c)

200 J

d)

1960 J

15.

What is the definition of Energy?

a)

a change in speed or direction

b)

the ability to cause changes, apply a force, or do work

c)

a force that works against motion as surfaces rub together

d)

the energy an object has because of its motion

16.

What is Potential Energy?

a)

the energy an object has because of its position or shape

b)

how quickly an object is moving

c)

a measure of how difficult it is to stop a moving object

17.

What is Speed?

a)

the energy an object has because of its position or shape

b)

how quickly an object is moving

c)

a measure of how difficult it is to stop a moving object

18.

Water is a __________ of cellular respiration.

a)

glucose

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

water

d)

oxygen

19.

Chloroplasts are the location of photosynthesis.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Cellular respiration is the process in which organisms break down food to release _______________.

a)

Food

b)

Water

c)

Energy

d)

Oxygen

21.

As energy is transferred from one organism to another in a food chain, energy _______________.

a)

doubles

b)

remains the same

c)

increases

d)

decreases

22.

The first step in the basic food chain is the ____________ which emits energy.

a)

Producer

b)

Consumer

c)

Sun

d)

Carnivore

23.

Which of the following would NOT be in the first trophic level on an energy pyramid?

a)

Tree

b)

Grass

c)

Worm

d)

Wheat

24.

Matter that make up the nonliving parts of an ecosystem, such as air and water

a)

abiotic

b)

biotic

c)

composer

d)

energy storage molecules

25.

An organism that gets energy storage molecules by breaking down dead matter

a)

primary consumer

b)

secondary consumer

c)

producer

d)

decomposer

26.

The part of the cell where photosynthesis happens

a)

mitochondria

b)

nucleus

c)

ribosome

d)

chloroplast

27.

An organism that needs to eat in order to get energy storage molecules.

a)

producer

b)

consumer

c)

decomposer

d)

dead matter

28.

All the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area.

a)

biodome

b)

biosphere

c)

ecosystem

d)

space

29.

The largest number of individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support over time is

a)

biotic potential

b)

carrying capacity

c)

limiting factors

d)

community

30.

Which takes the longest?

a)

primary succession

b)

secondary succession

c)

making toast

d)

singing your ABCs

31.

Primary succession takes longer than secondary succession because

a)

fires take longer to recover from

b)

there is no soil at the beginning of secondary succession

c)

there is no soil at the beginning of primary succession

d)

droughts and floods occur

32.

If two animals need meat from the same prey, there is ________ for that food source

a)

cooperation

b)

competition

c)

condensation

d)

community

33.

_______________ consists of all the organisms living in an area and the nonliving features of their environment

a)

population

b)

biosphere

c)

community

d)

ecosystem

34.

In the predator - prey relationship, _________________.

a)

the prey are producers

b)

the prey hunts the predator for food

c)

the prey keeps the predator population from growing too large

d)

the predator hunts the prey for food.

35.

A climax community is a community that

a)

is at the beginning of succession

b)

is about to experience a major change

c)

is a stable community that no longer goes through major ecological changes

d)

is always characterized by large trees

36.

As plants in an area undergoing ecological succession die, _______________.

a)

A ) no plants grow in their place

b)

B) they are replaced by plants of the same species

c)

C) they are replaced by plants of a new species

d)

D) both B and C

37.

A population cannot exceed the ____________ of its environment, which is the largest number of individuals that an ecosystem can support

a)

limiting factors

b)

biotic potential

c)

population

d)

carrying capacity

38.

A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and one is unaffected is

a)

cooperation

b)

commensalism

c)

mutualism

d)

parasitism

39.

Heartworm in a dog is an example of

a)

predator- prey

b)

mutualism

c)

commensalism

d)

parasitism

40.

_________________ can affect the amount of resources any individual can get.

a)

competition

b)

ecosystem

c)

biotic potential

d)

prey