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