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Ecosystems - Lessons 1 and 3
Contributed by: Marquis
(Original author: Davis)
  • 1. An organisms that breaks down dead and decaying matter
A) omnivore
B) predator
C) herbivore
D) decomposer
  • 2. An animal that eats only plants for food
A) carnivore
B) omnivore
C) vegivore
D) herbivore
  • 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) producer
B) herbivore
C) omnivore
D) carnivore
  • 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) plant
B) cricket
C) fish
D) spider
  • 7. An example of an omnivore would be a ___________________.
A) praying mantis
B) wolf
C) bear
D) cat
  • 8. The animal that is hunted by its predator
A) producer
B) prey
C) predator
D) consumer
  • 9. An example of an herbivore would be a ______________.
A) lion
B) rabbit
C) worm
D) spider
  • 10. An example of a decomposer would be a ____________________.
A) worm
B) a person
C) a tree
D) a bird
  • 11. The living parts in an ecosystem are called
A) ecology
B) fossils
C) abiotic factors
D) biotic factors
  • 12. The direction an arrow faces in a food chain points to who is ___________________.
A) eats meat
B) getting eaten
C) eats plants
D) doing the eating
  • 13. The nonliving parts in an ecosystem are called
A) producers
B) biotic factors
C) ecology
D) abiotic factors
  • 14. Carnivore that hunts for its food
A) consumer
B) producer
C) prey
D) predator
  • 15. Organisms that make their own food for energy are called
A) carnivores
B) herbivores
C) consumers
D) producers
  • 16. Organisms that cannot make their own food and get energy from other organisms are called
A) consumers
B) vegivores
C) producers
D) plants
  • 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) food web
B) community
C) ecosystem
D) ecology
  • 19. An important abiotic factor that means the typical weather pattern in an environment
A) climate
B) temperature
C) heat
D) weather
  • 20. All the members of a species that live in an ecosystem
A) population
B) kingdom
C) species
D) community
  • 21. All of the populations in an ecosystem
A) community
B) kingdom
C) habitat
D) population
  • 22. The home of an organism within an ecosystem
A) habitat
B) house
C) pond
D) community
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