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Energy in Ecosystems Set 2 (2025)

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
When humans burn fossil fuels, most of the carbon quickly enters the                       as carbon dioxide.
a)

Biosphere

b)
Atmosphere
c)

Geosphere

d)

Hydrosphere

2.

Which process contributes carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?

a)

respiration

b)

photosynthesis

3.
Carbon can be found in...
a)
The atmosphere
b)
Soil
c)
Fossil fuels
d)
All of the above
4.

Bacteria fix/"change" nitrogen from the atmosphere into a form plants can use.

a)

True

b)

False

5.
What is a producer? 
a)

Organism that creates its own food/energy

b)

Organism that eats other organisms for energy

c)

Organism that eats only plants

6.
What is a consumer? 
a)
Organism that creates their own food.
b)
Organism that eat other organisms for energy
c)
Organism that eat other dead organisms
7.

Which of these organisms would receive energy from the mouse?

a)
Plant
b)
Rabbit
c)

Snake

d)
Hawk
8.

What type of organism is the grasshopper?

a)

Primary producer

b)

Primary consumer

c)

Secondary consumer

d)

Tertiary consumer

9.

Which type of organisms break down dead material and helps turn it into nutrients in the soil?

a)

(primary) producers

b)

decomposers

c)

tertiary consumers

d)

secondary consumers

10.

Using food web which of the following is a secondary consumer?

a)

snake

b)

worm

c)

eagle

d)

squirrel

11.

Which of the following is a tertiary consumer

a)
cricket
b)
frog
c)
hawk
d)

snake

12.

Which organism in this food web is a primary consumer?

a)

rabbit

b)

bird

c)

grass

d)

frog

13.

Which level of the ecological pyramid contains secondary consumers?

a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D