WorksheetsEnvironmental Science (Unit 2, part 2)
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 14mins
What is the term for traits that help organisms survive and reproduce in their environment?
Adaptation
Biodiversity
Biomass
Carrying capacity
Which term describes the variety of life found in one area, including animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms?
Biodiversity
Biomass
Conservation Plan
Food Chain
What is the organic material that can be used to generate energy, produce biofuels, and heat homes?
Biomass
Carrying capacity
Decomposers
Detritivores
What is the term for the number of organisms of a species that a habitat can support?
Carrying capacity
Conservation Plan
Disturbance
Keystone Species
What do you call organisms that eat a diet consisting mainly of herbivores or other carnivores?
Carnivores
Herbivores
Consumers
Decomposers
What is a plan to conserve a natural place, ecosystem, and/or organism with goals and outcomes?
Conservation Plan
Carrying capacity
Food Web
Ecosystem Components
What are organisms called that depend on producers or other types of organisms for food?
Consumers
Decomposers
Detritivores
Herbivores
What term describes organisms that consume dead organisms and other organic waste?
Decomposers
Consumers
Herbivores
Carnivores
What are organisms that consume the remains of dead plants called?
Detritivores
Decomposers
Herbivores
Carnivores
What term is used for changes that can affect an ecosystem?
Disturbance
Adaptation
Interactions
Interest-Holders
What are the biotic and abiotic parts that interact within a given environment called?
Ecosystem Components
Food Chain
Habitat
Keystone Species
What is a simple linear pathway through which energy and materials are transferred in an ecosystem?
Food Chain
Food Web
Habitat
Conservation Plan
What is a diagram of feeding relationships that includes multiple intersecting food chains?
Food Web
Food Chain
Ecosystem Components
Keystone Species
What is the physical environment to which an organism has become adapted and in which it can survive?
Habitat
Ecosystem Components
Conservation Plan
Carrying capacity
What are organisms called that consume only producers such as plants or algae?
Herbivores
Carnivores
Consumers
Decomposers
What term describes how a cause brings about an effect in a system?
Interactions
Disturbance
Adaptation
Interest-Holders
Who are the people and groups affected by or contributing to the success of an ecosystem?
Interest-Holders
Consumers
Decomposers
Keystone Species
What is an organism that helps hold the system together and without it the ecosystem would look very different?
Keystone Species
Carnivores
Herbivores
Detritivores
What are limiting factors in an ecosystem?
Factors that increase the growth of a population
Environmental factors that limit the growth of a population
Factors that have no effect on population growth
Factors that only affect plant growth
What is a model in scientific terms?
A physical object used for experiments
A representation of a system of ideas, events, or processes
A type of organism in an ecosystem
A mathematical equation only
What does the Nature-Culture Relationship emphasize?
The separation between nature and culture
The interconnected relationship between the natural world and human culture
The dominance of culture over nature
The irrelevance of nature in human life
What is a niche in an ecosystem?
A place where organisms hide
The way an organism uses the range of physical and biological conditions in which it lives
A type of food chain
A specific type of plant
What are omnivores?
Organisms that eat only plants
Organisms that eat only animals
Organisms that eat both plants and animals
Organisms that do not eat
What are producers in an ecosystem?
Organisms that consume organic compounds
Organisms that produce organic compounds from energy and simple inorganic molecules
Organisms that decompose organic matter
Organisms that only eat plants
What does resilience in an ecosystem refer to?
The ability to grow rapidly
How the ecosystem can be resistant to disturbances
The ability to produce more offspring
The ability to consume more resources
What are scavengers?
Herbivores that eat plants
Carnivores that mainly eat the carcasses of dead animals
Omnivores that eat both plants and animals
Producers that create energy
What are trophic levels?
The different feeding positions in a food chain or web
The levels of energy production in plants
The stages of animal growth
The layers of soil in an ecosystem
