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Test: Cycles Honors

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 30mins

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Class
Date
1.
Abiotic factors that shape ecosystems include
a)
Worms, plants, and temperature.
b)
Wind, precipitation, and soil type.
c)
Niches, trees, and bacteria.
d)
Sunlight, mushrooms, and wind.
2.
Which of the following abiotic factors might restrict (limit) the growth of a plant population?
a)
Plentiful (lots of) rainfall
b)
Mild winters
c)
Limited sunlight
d)
Mild winds
3.
Which of the following is an abiotic factor?
a)
Sunlight
b)
Predator
c)
Prey
d)
Traffic
4.
Which abiotic cycles travel through biotic factors?
a)
Water cycle
b)
Carbone and Oxygen cycles
c)
Nitrogen and Phosphorus cycles
d)
All of the above.
5.
What does the water cycle do?
a)
Moves water through the atmosphere, land, and organisms.
b)
Moves carbon through human activity, the atmosphere, land, water, and organisms.
c)
Moves nitrogen through the soil, bacteria, plants, atmosphere and organisms.
d)
Moves oxygen through the atmosphere, plants, animals, and land.
6.
What does the oxygen cycle do?
a)
Moves water through the atmosphere, land, and organisms.
b)
Moves carbon through human activity, the atmosphere, land, water, and organisms.
c)
Moves nitrogen through the soil, bacteria, plants, atmosphere and organisms.
d)
Moves oxygen through the atmosphere, plants, animals, and land.
7.
What does the carbon cycle do?
a)
Moves water through the atmosphere, land, and organisms.
b)
Moves carbon through human activity, the atmosphere, land, water, and organisms.
c)
Moves nitrogen through the soil, bacteria, plants, atmosphere and organisms.
d)
Moves oxygen through the atmosphere, plants, animals, and land.
8.
What does the nitrogen cycle do?
a)
Moves water through the atmosphere, land, and organisms.
b)
Moves carbon through human activity, the atmosphere, land, water, and organisms.
c)
Moves nitrogen through the soil, bacteria, plants, atmosphere and organisms.
d)
Moves oxygen through the atmosphere, plants, animals, and land.
9.
What does abiotic mean?
a)
Not living factors that affect the environment.
b)
Living factors that affect the environment.
c)
Not living because it is now dead.
d)
Not living because it only applies to rocks.
10.
What six elements get recycled in nature?
a)
Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus
b)
Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sulfur, Hydrogen
c)
Cobalt, Oxygen, Neon, Phosphorus
d)
Carbon, Onix, Neon, Phosphorus, Salt, Helium
11.

Which cycle is responsible for moving phosphorus through rocks, soil, water, and organisms?

a)

Carbon cycle

b)

Phosphorus cycle

c)

Water cycle

d)

Oxygen cycle

12.

Which of the following is NOT an abiotic factor?

a)

Temperature

b)

Sunlight

c)

Bacteria

d)

Soil type

13.

How does the nitrogen cycle benefit plants?

a)

By providing sunlight for photosynthesis

b)

By increasing soil temperature

c)

By converting nitrogen into forms plants can use

d)

By moving water to plant roots

14.

Select the abiotic factors

15.
Question Image

Match the following terms with the best description.

a)

Some abiotic factors in an ecosystem

1.

Rock, water, sun, wind

b)

Some biotic factors in an ecosystem

2.

Plants, animals, microbes

c)

Breaks down waste and dead organisms

3.

decomposers

d)

Every food chain begins with this

4.

sun

e)

Makes their own food

5.

producer

16.

Which factors are biotic in this image?

17.

Abiotic means ​ ​ (a)   whereas biotic means ​ (b)   .

Choose from the below words
nonliving
living
organic
organism
18.

What are examples of abiotic factors?


​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ (d)   ​ (e)  

Choose from the below words
plants
animals
grass

Prey

trees
rocks
dirt
sunlight
air
water
19.

What are examples of biotic factors?


​ ​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ (d)   ​ (e)   ​ ​ ​ ​

Choose from the below words
plants
animals
grass
trees
humans
sun
moon
stars
air
water
20.
The process of change in the living parts of the ecosystem 
a)
ecological succession 
b)
primary succession 
c)
climax community
d)
pioneer species