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2025-Earth Space S1-60 Questions p1

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 1hrs 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The original source of energy for a food web is...

a)

sun

b)

plants

2.

What is a herbivore?

a)

an animal that gets energy from eating other animals

b)

an organism that gets energy from eating only plants

3.

Photosynthesis is important because...

a)

it makes food for the food webs

b)

it makes carbon dioxide

4.

The largest group of organisms found in a food web would be:

a)

Primary Consumers

b)

Producers

5.

List the physical plates from outermost layers to the innermost layers.

a)

Crust, mantle, asthenosphere, outer core, inner core

b)

Lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core

6.

Cattle egrets forage (feed) in fields among cattle. The egret gets easy access to flying insects stirred up by the cattle, and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.

a)

competition

b)

commensalism

7.

This is any variation that makes an organism better suited to its environment.

a)

Evolution

b)

Adaptation

8.

The role an organism plays in its ecosystem

a)

function

b)

niche

9.

When an organism copies a characteristic of something else in order to better its chances for survival and reproduction

a)

hibernation

b)

mimicry

10.

Which of the following shows the symbiotic relationship between the Rodent and the Bird?

a)

Competition

b)

Mutualism

11.

What is a Geologic Process?

a)

Something that occurs naturally and changes Earth's surface

b)

Something that only happens to geodes

12.

What does climate mean?

a)

is the broad long term patterns (average) of weather in a region

b)

day to day regions on earth

13.

Which of the following best describes a relationship in the food web?

a)

The mouse is a producer because it consumes the green plant.

b)

The wild cat is a secondary consumer because it consumes the rabbit.

14.

What is a producer?

a)

an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food

b)

an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

15.

A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust that allows hot lava to escape from underground.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

The huge pieces of the earth's crust are called ____________________________. 

a)

plates

b)

directions

17.

parasites, disease, predators, are examples of what type of limiting factors?

a)

density independent

b)

density dependent

18.

When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?

a)

The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity

b)

Continues to grow

19.

After a forest fire, an ecosystem would start regrowth through -

a)

limiting factors

b)

secondary succession

20.

This is the process that forms a new ecosystem where no organisms lived before.

a)

competition

b)

primary succession

21.

Who is the prey?

a)

Bear

b)

Salmon

22.

Noah and Aria love checking the forecast to see if they need an umbrella or sunglasses. What is it that changes every day?

a)

weather

b)

latitude

23.

Mason, William, and Evelyn are on a globe-trotting adventure! They notice that the temperature and weather patterns change as they move closer or farther from the equator. What is this change mostly related to?

a)

Weather

b)

Climate

24.

Which layer of the atmosphere contain all the weather?

a)

Thermosphere

b)

Troposphere

25.

Which of these BEST describes the atmosphere?

a)

a blanket of air that surrounds Earth

b)

all of Earth's water

26.

This cycle shows the way water evaporates from Earth’s surface into the air, condenses, and falls back to the surface as precipitation.

What is this cycle called?

a)

A. the water cycle

b)

B. the weather cycle

c)

C. the precipitation cycle

27.

This diagram shoes three important processes in the water cycle, What does number 1 show?

a)

Evaporation

b)

condensation

c)

precipitation

28.

This diagram shoes three important processes in the water cycle, What does number 2 show?

a)

Evaporation

b)

condensation

c)

precipitation

29.

What does it mean to adapt?

a)

To stay the same

b)

To move environments

c)

To change in order to survive

d)

To stay the same in order to survive

30.

fish swimming in schools

a)

physical adaptation

b)

behavioral adaptation

31.

Long Limbs

a)

physical adaptation

b)

behavioral adaptation

32.

Fur Color

a)

Physical Adaptation

b)

Behavioral Adaptation

33.
Composed of all the water on or near the earth
a)
Hydrosphere 
b)
Biosphere 
c)
Atmosphere 
d)
Geosphere 
34.
This sphere is composed of all the living things 
a)
Hydrosphere 
b)
Biosphere 
c)
Atmosphere 
d)
Geosphere 
35.
Geo = 
a)
Earth
b)
Sphere
c)
Life
d)
Water
36.

When convergent plates collide, if both plates are pushed upward, this forms.

a)

Fissures

b)

Mountain Ranges

c)

Volcanoes

d)

Rock Cycle

37.

​The arrows in the mantle are showing _________ which move the Earth's plates.

(click on the image to enlarge)

a)

continental drift

b)

convection currents

c)

radioactive decay

d)

conduction

38.
All food chains begin with a ____________.
a)
primary consumer
b)
secondary consumer
c)
producers
d)
scavengers
39.

Primary Consumer

a)

Most likely an herbivore

b)

Must find its own food

c)

Most likely eats meat “ONLY”

d)

Creates its own food through photosynthesis

e)

Most likely an omnivore

40.

Parasitism

a)

A. Both organism’s benefits

b)

B. This is the maximum number of organisms that can be supported by an ecosystem

c)

C. Non-Living parts of the environment

d)

D. Things that can grow a population or the lack thereof, can destroy a population.

e)

One organism benefits and the other is harmed

41.
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
42.
An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:
a)
Autotroph
b)
Producer
c)
Consumer
d)
Mutualist
43.
An animal that gets energy from eating both plants and animals is a 
a)
herbivore
b)
carnivore
c)
omnivore
d)
autotroph
44.
When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?
a)
Continues to grow
b)
The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity
c)
The population will go extinct due to lack of resources
d)
The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity
45.

Which letter shows exponential growth happening?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

46.
Which organism recieves the least amount of energy from the producer?
a)
Owl
b)
Grasshopper
c)
Lilypad
d)
Mouse
47.

behaviors that come from watching other animals or through experience

a)

hibernation

b)

migration

c)

instinct

d)

learned behavior

48.
Why Do aniamals Adapt?
a)
To make their life better
b)
To Survive in their envorment.
c)
To make people happy
d)
ALL of the above
49.
Which best describes how a porcupine defends itself from predators?
a)
it changes color
b)
it has sharp quills
c)
it moves very rapidly
d)
it makes a loud noise
50.

The teeth in this picture are from an animal that would most likely eat

a)

grass

b)

insects

c)

fruit

d)

fish

51.
Which feature of a rose helps it grow without being eaten by large animals?
a)
flowers with bright colors
b)
sharp thorns
c)
small seeds
d)
deep roots
52.

Volcanoes

a)

Meteorology

b)

Astronomy

c)

Geology

d)

Oceanography

e)

Pseudoscience

53.

Waves

a)

Meteorology

b)

Astronomy

c)

Geology

d)

Oceanography

e)

Pseudoscience

54.

Thunderstorms

a)

Meteorology

b)

Astronomy

c)

Geology

d)

Oceanography

e)

Pseudoscience

55.

Bigfoot

a)

Geology

b)

Meteorology

c)

Astronomy

d)

Oceanography

e)

Pseudoscience

56.
How do scientists learn about the world around them?
a)
by ignoring observations 
b)
by studying plants
c)
by asking questions 
d)
by studying plants 
57.

What are climate factors?

a)

Latitude/Elevation

b)

All of the Above

c)

Wind/Ocean Currents

d)

Surface features (Landforms)

58.
The non-living part of an ecosystem
a)
Ocean
b)
Lava Flow
c)
Birds
d)
Abiotic
59.
Nonliving things found in an ecosystem.
a)
factories
b)

factor trees

c)
biotic factors
d)
abiotic factors
60.

What could happen to this food web if all the plants were eliminated?

a)

only fungi would survive

b)

the food web would collapse

c)

birds and nematodes will increase

d)

the food web would produce more decomposers