- 1. An organisms that breaks down dead and decaying matter
A) herbivore
B) predator
C) decomposer
D) omnivore
- 2. An animal that eats only plants for food
A) omnivore
B) vegivore
C) carnivore
D) herbivore
- 3. An animal that eats both plants and animals
A) carnivore
B) omnivore
C) decomposer
D) hungry
- 4. An animal that eats both omnivores and herbivores
A) herbivore
B) producer
C) carnivore
D) omnivore
- 5. Many food chains that are linked together are called a ________________.
A) food string
B) food web
C) food circles
D) food link
- 6. Which of the following is a producer?
A) cricket
B) fish
C) spider
D) plant
- 7. An example of an omnivore would be a ___________________.
A) praying mantis
B) cat
C) wolf
D) bear
- 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) rabbit
B) spider
C) lion
D) worm
- 10. An example of a decomposer would be a ____________________.
A) a bird
B) a tree
C) worm
D) a person
- 11. The living parts in an ecosystem are called
A) biotic factors
B) ecology
C) abiotic factors
D) fossils
- 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) abiotic factors
B) biotic factors
C) ecology
D) producers
- 14. Carnivore that hunts for its food
A) predator
B) producer
C) prey
D) consumer
- 15. Organisms that make their own food for energy are called
A) consumers
B) carnivores
C) herbivores
D) producers
- 16. Organisms that cannot make their own food and get energy from other organisms are called
A) vegivores
B) consumers
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 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) ecosystem
C) community
D) ecology
- 19. An important abiotic factor that means the typical weather pattern in an environment
A) heat
B) climate
C) temperature
D) weather
- 20. All the members of a species that live in an ecosystem
A) population
B) species
C) community
D) kingdom
- 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) community
B) habitat
C) house
D) pond
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