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3.3 Change within Ecosystems

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
  1. ______________________ is a series of changes in a community of an ecosystem. 

a)

Pollution

b)

Competition

c)

Succession

d)

Stable

2.
  1. _____________ means unchanging. 

a)

Succession

b)

Stable

c)

Competition

d)

Consumers

3.
  1. When two or more organisms need the same limited resource to survive it is called ________________________.

a)

producer

b)

consumer

c)

giving up

d)

competition

4.
  1. A powerful volcanic eruption destroyed the living things in a once stable ecosystem. The first organisms that grow again in the ecosystem are ________________________ because they can make their own _________. 

a)

animals food

b)

consumers food

c)

producers food

d)

producers steak

5.

An ecologist is studying a lake ecosystem in South America. What kinds of changes could cause the ecosystem to become unstable? _____________________ by the nearby human population and _____________________ flowing into the lake from nearby factories.

a)

pollution overfishing

b)

pollution food

c)

overfishing consumers

d)

overfishing pollution

6.

Adding rabbits to a forest ecosystem would make it more ______________ for deer to find ________.

a)

difficult food

b)

difficult overfishing

c)

convenient food

d)

convenient consumers

7.
  1. If trees were removed from an ecosystem, there would not be enough ____________________, and the population of _________________ would decrease. 

a)

producers plants

b)

producers consumers

c)

producers producers

d)

consumers producers

8.
  1. In an ecosystem with hawks and eagles, why might the population of eagles decrease? The hawks will _________________ with the eagles for ________. 

a)

live a year

b)

compete pollution

c)

compete food

d)

live food

9.
  1. If you remove ___________________ from an ecosystem, the number of ___________________ would grow larger. 

a)

consumers producers

b)

consumers rabbits

c)

producers consumers

d)

producers sunflowers