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WorksheetsScience Ecology
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 28mins
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Class
Date
1.
This is the branch of science that studies how living things interact with one another and with their environment.
a)
Ecosystem
b)
Biome
c)
Ecology
d)
Habitat
2.
Which major biome is home to cacti, brittle bushes, small reptiles, and coyotes?
a)
Desert
b)
Taiga
c)
Tundra
d)
Grassland
3.
What is this called?
a)
Food Web
b)
Food Chain
c)
Abiotic Factors
4.
Which biome, because of its climate and amount of rainfall, has the largest number of species of plants and animals?
a)
Tundra
b)
Rainforest
c)
Desert
d)
Pineforest
5.
What Biome do we live in?
a)
Deciduous Forest
b)
Tropical Rain Forest
c)
Taiga
d)
Grasslands
6.
What is this called?
a)
Food Web
b)
Food Chain
c)
Abiotic Factors
7.
What is an example of a decomposer?
a)
Tree
b)
Dog
c)
Grasshopper
d)
Bacteria
8.
The place where an organism lives is its _________.
a)
habitat
b)
abiotic
c)
ecosystem
d)
community
9.
An individual living thing is a/an __________.
a)
habitat
b)
ecosystem
c)
organism
d)
population
10.
All of the living parts of an ecosystem are _________.
a)
biology
b)
biotic
c)
abiotic
d)
biography
11.
All of the nonliving parts of an ecosystem are _______.
a)
biography
b)
biotic
c)
abiotic
d)
biology
12.
A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area are called a/an ________.
a)
community
b)
habitat
c)
population
d)
ecosystem
13.
All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.
a)
community
b)
habitat
c)
population
d)
ecosystem
14.
A group of different species that live together and interact in an environment are called a/an ________.
a)
community
b)
habitat
c)
population
d)
ecosystem
15.
If the population of prey increases, the population of predators will ________because of the availability of food.
a)
decrease
b)
stay the same
c)
increase
16.
On a safari at night, a lion hunts and feeds on an antelope. In this relationship, the lion is the ____________________ and the antelope is the _________________.
a)
Parasite/host
b)
Predator/prey
c)
Prey/Predator
17.
A body part or behavior that helps a living thing survive
a)
camoflage
b)
adaptation
c)
extiction
d)
instinct
18.
A living thing that can't make its own food and must eat other living things.
a)
producer
b)
consumer
c)
decomposer
d)
instinct
19.
Which group uses the sun's energy to make food?
a)
producers
b)
consumers
c)
decomposers
d)
predators
20.
What makes an estuary different from other ecosystems?
a)
Life in an estuary is influenced by the rise and fall of the tides
b)
Contains both seawater and freshwater
c)
Organisms that live here have to adapt to the brackish water
d)
All of the above
21.
This biome covers 3/4 of the Earth's surface
a)
Tundra
b)
Deciduous Forrest
c)
Ocean
d)
Lake
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