- 1. An organisms that breaks down dead and decaying matter
A) herbivore
B) decomposer
C) omnivore
D) predator
- 2. An animal that eats only plants for food
A) omnivore
B) herbivore
C) carnivore
D) vegivore
- 3. An animal that eats both plants and animals
A) omnivore
B) decomposer
C) carnivore
D) hungry
- 4. An animal that eats both omnivores and herbivores
A) omnivore
B) herbivore
C) producer
D) carnivore
- 5. Many food chains that are linked together are called a ________________.
A) food web
B) food link
C) food string
D) food circles
- 6. Which of the following is a producer?
A) plant
B) fish
C) spider
D) cricket
- 7. An example of an omnivore would be a ___________________.
A) wolf
B) cat
C) bear
D) praying mantis
- 8. The animal that is hunted by its predator
A) prey
B) predator
C) producer
D) consumer
- 9. An example of an herbivore would be a ______________.
A) rabbit
B) spider
C) worm
D) lion
- 10. An example of a decomposer would be a ____________________.
A) a person
B) worm
C) a tree
D) a bird
- 11. The living parts in an ecosystem are called
A) fossils
B) biotic factors
C) ecology
D) abiotic factors
- 12. The direction an arrow faces in a food chain points to who is ___________________.
A) eats meat
B) eats plants
C) doing the eating
D) getting eaten
- 13. The nonliving parts in an ecosystem are called
A) producers
B) ecology
C) abiotic factors
D) biotic factors
- 14. Carnivore that hunts for its food
A) consumer
B) predator
C) prey
D) producer
- 15. Organisms that make their own food for energy are called
A) producers
B) consumers
C) carnivores
D) herbivores
- 16. Organisms that cannot make their own food and get energy from other organisms are called
A) consumers
B) producers
C) plants
D) vegivores
- 17. The straight path in which energy is passed from the sun, to producer, to consumers is called a
A) food line
B) food highway
C) food web
D) food chain
- 18. The living and nonliving factors in an environment and all their interactions
A) community
B) ecology
C) ecosystem
D) food web
- 19. An important abiotic factor that means the typical weather pattern in an environment
A) climate
B) weather
C) temperature
D) heat
- 20. All the members of a species that live in an ecosystem
A) kingdom
B) community
C) species
D) population
- 21. All of the populations in an ecosystem
A) habitat
B) kingdom
C) community
D) population
- 22. The home of an organism within an ecosystem
A) community
B) pond
C) house
D) habitat
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