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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) decomposer
B) predator
C) omnivore
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) carnivore
B) omnivore
C) producer
D) herbivore
  • 5. Many food chains that are linked together are called a ________________.
A) food link
B) food web
C) food string
D) food circles
  • 6. Which of the following is a producer?
A) cricket
B) spider
C) fish
D) plant
  • 7. An example of an omnivore would be a ___________________.
A) praying mantis
B) bear
C) cat
D) wolf
  • 8. The animal that is hunted by its predator
A) producer
B) consumer
C) predator
D) prey
  • 9. An example of an herbivore would be a ______________.
A) spider
B) worm
C) lion
D) rabbit
  • 10. An example of a decomposer would be a ____________________.
A) worm
B) a bird
C) a tree
D) a person
  • 11. The living parts in an ecosystem are called
A) abiotic factors
B) fossils
C) ecology
D) biotic 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) abiotic factors
B) biotic factors
C) producers
D) ecology
  • 14. Carnivore that hunts for its food
A) prey
B) consumer
C) producer
D) predator
  • 15. Organisms that make their own food for energy are called
A) producers
B) herbivores
C) carnivores
D) consumers
  • 16. Organisms that cannot make their own food and get energy from other organisms are called
A) plants
B) producers
C) consumers
D) vegivores
  • 17. The straight path in which energy is passed from the sun, to producer, to consumers is called a
A) food highway
B) food chain
C) food web
D) food line
  • 18. The living and nonliving factors in an environment and all their interactions
A) ecology
B) community
C) ecosystem
D) food web
  • 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) habitat
C) kingdom
D) population
  • 22. The home of an organism within an ecosystem
A) pond
B) house
C) habitat
D) community
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