Intro to EcoSystems and Intro to Food Webs_Chains
  • 1. How many MAIN CLASSIFICATIONS of Eco-Systems are there?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Eleven
D) Seven
  • 2. What is the Largest Eco-System of the classifications in Question one?
A) Ocean Ecosystems
B) Tundra Ecosystems
C) Terrestrial Ecosystems
D) Freshwater Ecosystems
  • 3. What Ecosystem only covers 1.8% of the Earth's Surface
A) Freshwater Ecosystem
B) Terrestrial Ecosystems
C) Ocean Ecosystems
D) Deciduous Forest Ecosystems
  • 4. What is the basis of all FOOD CHAINS
A) Plants
B) Bacteria
C) Consumers
D) Animals
  • 5. What is the END of EVERY Food Web?
A) Producers
B) Scavengers
C) Decomposers
D) Consumers
  • 6. How many Categories are in the Terrestrial Ecosystem?
A) Three
B) Two
C) Seven
D) Four
  • 7. What is the BASE of the Freshwater FOOD WEB?
A) Photosynthetic Plankton
B) Algae
C) Bacteria
D) Plankton
  • 8. What is the BASE of the Ocean FOOD WEB?
A) Plankton
B) Photosynthetic Plankton
C) Algae
D) Bacteria
  • 9. What percentage of the Earth is covered by Oceans?
A) 1/2 of the Earth`
B) 1/4 of the Earth
C) 3/4 of the Earth
D) 2/3 of the Earth
  • 10. How many types of Ocean Ecosystems are there?
A) Two
B) None
C) Four
D) Three
  • 11. Which two Ocean Ecosystems have sunlight in them
A) Shallow Ocean Surface and Freshwater Ocean
B) Shallow Ocean Water and Deep Ocean Surface
C) Deep Ocean Surface and Deep Ocean Water
D) Shallow Ocean Water and Deep Ocean Water
  • 12. Photosynthesis creates ALL of our Oxygen. What percentage is created in the Oceans?
A) Fifty Percent
B) Twenty Percent
C) Ninety Percent
D) Forty Percent
  • 13. What Ecosystem has wind swept, dry, and ground always frozen?
A) Temperate Grasslands
B) Coniferous Forest
C) Tundra
D) Desert
  • 14. What is the Ecosystem that is MOST LIKE our own here in North Carolina?
A) Deciduous Forest
B) Coniferous Forest
C) Temperate Grasslands
D) Tundra
  • 15. What Ecosystem is Open, Wide Spaced Trees, and Seasonal Rainfall?
A) Deserts
B) Coniferous Forests
C) Temperate Grasslands
D) Savannas
  • 16. What Ecosystem has the MOST precipitation in a year?
A) Savannas
B) Deciduous Forest
C) Coniferous Forest
D) Tropical Rainforest
  • 17. Producers are called Producers because.....
A) They are producing the most energy for the food chain
B) They are the production of the food chain
C) They produce their own food
D) Because they produce the most waste products
  • 18. Consumers will eat
A) They are cannibals and eat their own type organisms
B) Consumers only
C) Producers and other consuers
D) Producers only
  • 19. A Prey can be a Predator?
A) Neither True nor False
B) True
C) Both True and False
D) False
  • 20. A Predator can be Prey?
A) Both True and False
B) Neither True nor False
C) True
D) False
  • 21. An Apex Predator CAN become Prey?
A) Neither True nor False
B) True
C) Both True and False
D) False
  • 22. An example of an Apex Predator is?
A) All of these
B) A Eagle
C) Humans
D) A Lion
  • 23. An example of a Decomposer is?
A) Buzzards
B) Bacteria
C) Vultures
D) All of these
  • 24. An example of a Scavenger is
A) A Lion
B) A Vulture
C) All of these
D) Bacteria
  • 25. How many Trophic Levels are represented by - Grass > Grasshopper > Mouse > Snake > Owl
A) Four
B) Five
C) Three
D) Six
  • 26. What Percent Energy do we actually receive when eating ANY Organism?
A) 20
B) 10
C) 90
D) 50
  • 27. What Ecosystem has Short Growing Seasons and Cold Winters
A) Savanna
B) Deserts
C) Deciduous Forest
D) Coniferous Forest
  • 28. Omnivores eat meat only
A) Both
B) True
C) Neither
D) False
  • 29. An organism that eats its OWN SPECIES is called a
A) Scavenger
B) Carnivore
C) Omnivore
D) Cannibal
  • 30. Decomposers break down organisms back to
A) Their elemental states and natural minerals
B) Vitamins and fat
C) Fat and bone tissue
D) Fungi
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