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A pre-test to be used to assess students prior knowledge on ecosystems
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A biotic factor is something that
was never alive
is living or was once living
was once living
is living
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Consumers that get the energy they need by breaking down dead or decaying matter are called
Decomposers
Consumers
Producers
3
In the same food chain, what would happen to the population of snakes if the grass disappeared?
It would decrease
It would stay the same
It would increase
4
An ecosystem is a system of
different populations
living things
habitats, communities, and populations
living and non-living things interacting with each other
5
Animals that eat only meat are called
Omnivores
Carnivores
Herbivores
6
True or false: Plants have adaptations
True
False
7
An abiotic factor is something that
is living
was once living
was never alive
is living or was once living
8
True or False: A puddle can be an ecosystem
True
False
9
Which of these human actions could negatively affect the population of salmon in a stream?
Building a factory a few blocks away from the stream
Flushing medicine down the toilet
all of the above
Washing chemicals down the sink
10
What is an organism?
an individual non-living thing
an individual living thing
all of the above
a part of the body with a specific job
11
Organisms that use light energy to produce food are called
Decomposers
Producers
Consumers
12
In a grass → grasshopper → frog → snake food chain, which organism is a producer?
grasshopper
frog
snake
grass
13
A place in which organisms live is called
a forest
a habitat
an ecosystem
a house
14
The food of almost any kind of animal can be traced back to
air
fish
birds
plants
15
All members of one kind of organism that live in the same area are called
a community
an organism
microorganisms
a population
16
Which adaptations tell us that an animal is a predator?
Eyes in the front of the head
Eyes on the sides of the head
Feathers around ears
whiskers
17
Which is
not
an adaptation of a wolf?
Hunting in packs
Learning to take food from a human
Claws to catch prey
Fur to keep warm
18
Plants need these things to live
sunlight, water
air, water, soil
Sunlight, air, water, soil
sunlight, water, air
19
Which of the following organisms in an ecosystem is a decomposer?
a lion
a whale
a worm
a plant
20
Which of the following is a consumer?
Rose bush
Beetle
Human
Mushroom
21
The sun is
biotic/living
abiotic/nonliving
22
Why were there more willow and aspen trees in Yellowstone after the introduction of wolves?
Humans planted more trees.
Introduction of wolves did not affect the tree population.
The wolves diet fertilized the ground.
The wolves ate the herbivores which fed on the trees.
23
Which two things are living?
volcano, bacteria
water, rock
dead branch, mushroom
24
Plants are
Consumers
Producers
Decomposers
25
Ecosystems contain:
weather
living things
geological factors
all of the above