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Ecosystems - Lessons 1 and 3
Contributed by: Marquis
(Original author: Davis)
  • 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) carnivore
B) herbivore
C) omnivore
D) vegivore
  • 3. An animal that eats both plants and animals
A) hungry
B) decomposer
C) carnivore
D) omnivore
  • 4. An animal that eats both omnivores and herbivores
A) herbivore
B) omnivore
C) carnivore
D) producer
  • 5. Many food chains that are linked together are called a ________________.
A) food circles
B) food string
C) food link
D) food web
  • 6. Which of the following is a producer?
A) fish
B) cricket
C) plant
D) spider
  • 7. An example of an omnivore would be a ___________________.
A) wolf
B) cat
C) bear
D) praying mantis
  • 8. The animal that is hunted by its predator
A) producer
B) predator
C) consumer
D) prey
  • 9. An example of an herbivore would be a ______________.
A) lion
B) rabbit
C) spider
D) worm
  • 10. An example of a decomposer would be a ____________________.
A) a person
B) a tree
C) a bird
D) worm
  • 11. The living parts in an ecosystem are called
A) fossils
B) ecology
C) abiotic factors
D) biotic factors
  • 12. The direction an arrow faces in a food chain points to who is ___________________.
A) eats plants
B) eats meat
C) getting eaten
D) doing the eating
  • 13. The nonliving parts in an ecosystem are called
A) producers
B) biotic factors
C) ecology
D) abiotic factors
  • 14. Carnivore that hunts for its food
A) predator
B) prey
C) consumer
D) producer
  • 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) plants
B) vegivores
C) consumers
D) producers
  • 17. The straight path in which energy is passed from the sun, to producer, to consumers is called a
A) food line
B) food chain
C) food highway
D) food web
  • 18. The living and nonliving factors in an environment and all their interactions
A) ecosystem
B) food web
C) community
D) ecology
  • 19. An important abiotic factor that means the typical weather pattern in an environment
A) heat
B) climate
C) weather
D) temperature
  • 20. All the members of a species that live in an ecosystem
A) population
B) species
C) kingdom
D) community
  • 21. All of the populations in an ecosystem
A) community
B) habitat
C) population
D) kingdom
  • 22. The home of an organism within an ecosystem
A) habitat
B) community
C) pond
D) house
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