WorksheetsEcosystem Quiz
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
An ecosystem is a community that provides food, water, and shelter. What does an ecosystem consist of?
Only living things
Only non-living things
Both living and non-living things
Only plants and animals
What is the original source of energy in most ecosystems?
Food chains
The Sun
Water
The soil
What is a food chain?
A list of all living things in an area.
A description of how energy flows from one organism to another.
A group of animals that eat the same food.
A list of predators and their prey.
How do animals get their energy?
They make it from the sun.
They get it from eating plants or other animals.
They get it from the soil.
They breathe it in.
What happens to a hawk's energy when it dies?
It disappears.
It is returned to the soil.
It is eaten by producers.
It is sent into the atmosphere.
Based on the examples, how do decomposers get their energy?
From the sun.
From eating other animals.
From living plants.
From breaking down dead organisms.
What is the correct flow of energy in the food chain shown?
Hawk → Rabbit → Grass
Grass → Rabbit → Hawk
Sun → Hawk → Rabbit
Rabbit → Grass → Hawk
In the relationship 'Rabbit eats grass,' what is the rabbit considered?
A producer
A consumer
A decomposer
A plant
Why do animals eat different types of food (plants, animals, or both)?
To stay hydrated.
To get the energy they need to live.
To protect their territory.
To help plants grow faster.
What is a hawk considered in the ecosystem?
Prey
A producer
A consumer
A decomposer
The term for a community that provides food, water, and shelter to living organisms.
Food chain
Habitat
Ecosystem
Community
The term for organisms that make their own food from the sun.
Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
Prey
The term for organisms that get their energy by eating other living things.
Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
Food web
The term for the description of how energy flows from one organism to another.
Ecosystem
Energy flow
Food chain
Environment
The term for a living organism that is hunted and eaten by another living organism for food.
Predator
Decomposer
Prey
Producer
The term for the interaction between organisms and their environment.
Energy flow
Habitat
Food web
Ecosystem
What happens if producers disappear from an ecosystem?
All other organisms will die because they have no food source.
Consumers will start eating decomposers.
Decomposers will create new producers.
The ecosystem will get new energy from the sun.
What happens if a hawk cannot find any prey?
It will start eating plants.
Its energy will be returned to the soil immediately.
It will get sick and die.
It will move to another ecosystem.
What happens if there are no decomposers in an ecosystem?
The food chain will get longer.
Energy will not be returned to the soil after an organism dies.
All animals will have to eat plants.
The hawk will have to eat more rabbits.
