Ecosystems - Lessons 1 and 3
  • 1. An organisms that breaks down dead and decaying matter
A) omnivore
B) herbivore
C) predator
D) decomposer
  • 2. An animal that eats only plants for food
A) vegivore
B) omnivore
C) carnivore
D) herbivore
  • 3. An animal that eats both plants and animals
A) carnivore
B) decomposer
C) omnivore
D) hungry
  • 4. An animal that eats both omnivores and herbivores
A) carnivore
B) omnivore
C) herbivore
D) producer
  • 5. Many food chains that are linked together are called a ________________.
A) food link
B) food circles
C) food string
D) food web
  • 6. Which of the following is a producer?
A) fish
B) spider
C) cricket
D) plant
  • 7. An example of an omnivore would be a ___________________.
A) bear
B) cat
C) praying mantis
D) wolf
  • 8. The animal that is hunted by its predator
A) producer
B) prey
C) consumer
D) predator
  • 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) a tree
B) a person
C) worm
D) a bird
  • 11. The living parts in an ecosystem are called
A) fossils
B) biotic factors
C) ecology
D) abiotic factors
  • 12. The direction an arrow faces in a food chain points to who is ___________________.
A) getting eaten
B) eats plants
C) eats meat
D) doing the eating
  • 13. The nonliving parts in an ecosystem are called
A) biotic factors
B) abiotic factors
C) ecology
D) producers
  • 14. Carnivore that hunts for its food
A) producer
B) predator
C) consumer
D) prey
  • 15. Organisms that make their own food for energy are called
A) herbivores
B) carnivores
C) producers
D) consumers
  • 16. Organisms that cannot make their own food and get energy from other organisms are called
A) consumers
B) producers
C) plants
D) vegivores
  • 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 highway
D) food web
  • 18. The living and nonliving factors in an environment and all their interactions
A) food web
B) community
C) ecology
D) ecosystem
  • 19. An important abiotic factor that means the typical weather pattern in an environment
A) weather
B) climate
C) temperature
D) heat
  • 20. All the members of a species that live in an ecosystem
A) community
B) species
C) population
D) kingdom
  • 21. All of the populations in an ecosystem
A) community
B) kingdom
C) population
D) habitat
  • 22. The home of an organism within an ecosystem
A) house
B) pond
C) community
D) habitat
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