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