- 1. An organisms that breaks down dead and decaying matter
A) decomposer
B) omnivore
C) predator
D) herbivore
- 2. An animal that eats only plants for food
A) herbivore
B) carnivore
C) vegivore
D) omnivore
- 3. An animal that eats both plants and animals
A) hungry
B) omnivore
C) decomposer
D) carnivore
- 4. An animal that eats both omnivores and herbivores
A) omnivore
B) carnivore
C) producer
D) herbivore
- 5. Many food chains that are linked together are called a ________________.
A) food string
B) food web
C) food link
D) food circles
- 6. Which of the following is a producer?
A) cricket
B) plant
C) fish
D) spider
- 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) consumer
C) producer
D) prey
- 9. An example of an herbivore would be a ______________.
A) lion
B) spider
C) worm
D) rabbit
- 10. An example of a decomposer would be a ____________________.
A) a bird
B) a person
C) worm
D) a tree
- 11. The living parts in an ecosystem are called
A) abiotic factors
B) biotic factors
C) fossils
D) ecology
- 12. The direction an arrow faces in a food chain points to who is ___________________.
A) doing the eating
B) getting eaten
C) eats plants
D) eats meat
- 13. The nonliving parts in an ecosystem are called
A) biotic factors
B) producers
C) abiotic factors
D) ecology
- 14. Carnivore that hunts for its food
A) consumer
B) predator
C) producer
D) prey
- 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) producers
B) consumers
C) vegivores
D) plants
- 17. The straight path in which energy is passed from the sun, to producer, to consumers is called a
A) food chain
B) food line
C) food web
D) food highway
- 18. The living and nonliving factors in an environment and all their interactions
A) food web
B) community
C) ecology
D) ecosystem
- 19. An important abiotic factor that means the typical weather pattern in an environment
A) heat
B) weather
C) climate
D) temperature
- 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) kingdom
B) community
C) habitat
D) population
- 22. The home of an organism within an ecosystem
A) community
B) habitat
C) house
D) pond
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