- 1. An organisms that breaks down dead and decaying matter
A) herbivore
B) decomposer
C) predator
D) omnivore
- 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) decomposer
B) omnivore
C) hungry
D) carnivore
- 4. An animal that eats both omnivores and herbivores
A) producer
B) carnivore
C) herbivore
D) omnivore
- 5. Many food chains that are linked together are called a ________________.
A) food circles
B) food link
C) food web
D) food string
- 6. Which of the following is a producer?
A) cricket
B) plant
C) spider
D) fish
- 7. An example of an omnivore would be a ___________________.
A) wolf
B) praying mantis
C) bear
D) cat
- 8. The animal that is hunted by its predator
A) prey
B) producer
C) predator
D) consumer
- 9. An example of an herbivore would be a ______________.
A) worm
B) lion
C) spider
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) fossils
B) abiotic factors
C) biotic factors
D) ecology
- 12. The direction an arrow faces in a food chain points to who is ___________________.
A) eats meat
B) getting eaten
C) doing the eating
D) eats plants
- 13. The nonliving parts in an ecosystem are called
A) ecology
B) producers
C) abiotic factors
D) biotic factors
- 14. Carnivore that hunts for its food
A) predator
B) prey
C) producer
D) consumer
- 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) 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 web
B) food chain
C) food line
D) food highway
- 18. The living and nonliving factors in an environment and all their interactions
A) food web
B) ecology
C) ecosystem
D) community
- 19. An important abiotic factor that means the typical weather pattern in an environment
A) weather
B) temperature
C) climate
D) heat
- 20. All the members of a species that live in an ecosystem
A) kingdom
B) species
C) community
D) population
- 21. All of the populations in an ecosystem
A) population
B) kingdom
C) habitat
D) community
- 22. The home of an organism within an ecosystem
A) pond
B) habitat
C) community
D) house
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