- 1. An organisms that breaks down dead and decaying matter is called a _____.
A) herbivore
B) predator
C) decomposer
D) omnivore
- 2. An animal that eats only plants for food is called a _____.
A) vegivore
B) herbivore
C) omnivore
D) carnivore
- 3. An animal that eats both plants and animals is called a _____.
A) omnivore
B) hungry
C) carnivore
D) decomposer
- 4. An animal that eats both omnivores and herbivores
A) omnivore
B) herbivore
C) producer
D) carnivore
- 5. Many food chains that are linked together are called a ________________.
A) food link
B) food circles
C) food web
D) food string
- 6. Which of the following is a producer?
A) fish
B) cricket
C) algae
D) spider
- 7. An example of an omnivore would be a ___________________.
A) wolf
B) bear
C) praying mantis
D) cat
- 8. The animal that is hunted by a predator is called a _____.
A) prey
B) predator
C) producer
D) consumer
- 9. An example of an herbivore would be a ______________.
A) worm
B) lion
C) spider
D) rabbit
- 10. An example of a decomposer would be a ____________________.
A) a tree
B) worm
C) a bird
D) a person
- 11. The living parts in an ecosystem are called
A) fossils
B) biotic factors
C) abiotic factors
D) ecology
- 12. The direction an arrow faces in a food chain points to the direction the ______ is moving.
A) energy
B) detris
C) lethargy
D) organism
- 13. The nonliving parts in an ecosystem are called the _____.
A) producers
B) abiotic factors
C) biotic factors
D) ecology
- 14. Carnivore that hunts for its food is called a _____.
A) producer
B) prey
C) consumer
D) predator
- 15. Organisms that make their own food for energy are called _____.
A) consumers
B) producers
C) herbivores
D) carnivores
- 16. Organisms that cannot make their own food and get energy from other organisms are called _____.
A) producers
B) plants
C) consumers
D) vegivores
- 17. The straight path in which energy is passed from the sun, to producer, to consumers is called a _____.
A) food highway
B) food chain
C) food web
D) food line
- 18. The living and nonliving factors in an environment and all their interactions are called its _____.
A) ecology
B) ecosystem
C) community
D) food web
- 19. An important abiotic factor that means the typical weather pattern in an environment is called its _____.
A) temperature
B) precipitation
C) heat
D) climate
- 20. All the members of a species that live in an ecosystem are called a _____.
A) kingdom
B) population
C) species
D) community
- 21. All of the populations in an ecosystem are called a _____.
A) habitat
B) kingdom
C) community
D) population
- 22. The home of an organism within an ecosystem is called its _____.
A) community
B) habitat
C) pond
D) house
- 23. As nutritional energy passes through the food chain, energy is _____.
A) increases then decreases
B) lost
C) gained
D) remains the same
- 24. If a person eats a steak (from a cow), the person is acting as a _____.
A) secondary consumer
B) primary consumer
C) tertiary consumer
D) quaternary consumer
- 25. A bear that eats a fish that ate bugs that ate algae is a _____.
A) tertiary consumer
B) primary consumer
C) primary producer
D) secondary consumer
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