Multiple Choice Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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What word describes the mammals, fish, birds, and plants that live in an
environment?
a. | abiotic | c. | the biosphere | b. | the population | d. | biotic |
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Which of the following is abiotic?
a. | a snake | c. | grass | b. | an alligator | d. | water |
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Organisms that can make their own food from sunlight are called
a. | decomposers. | c. | producers. | b. | consumers. | d. | carnivores. |
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Grass is eaten by a prairie dog. The prairie dog is eaten by a coyote. This is
an example of
a. | an abiotic element. | c. | a herbivore. | b. | an omnivore. | d. | a food chain. |
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One food web arrow goes from a prairie dog to a coyote, showing that
a. | the coyote is bigger. | c. | the prairie dog eats the coyote. | b. | the coyote eats the
prairie dog. | d. | the prairie
dog is a producer. |
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A bird eats a worm. Who is the predator?
a. | the worm | c. | both the bird and the worm | b. | the
bird | d. | neither the bird nor
the worm |
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Rocks, temperature, and water are what part of the environment?
a. | biotic | c. | population | b. | abiotic | d. | living |
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Grass that gains energy from the sun is an example of a
a. | consumer. | c. | decomposer. | b. | parasite. | d. | producer. |
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A diagram with arrows showing energy flow from grass, to a rabbit, to a fox
is
a. | an energy pyramid. | c. | a food chain. | b. | a food web. | d. | a population
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In a food web, arrows point in just one direction because they show
a. | which animal is bigger. | b. | which animals are related. | c. | how energy goes to
the animal that is eating. | d. | how energy goes to the animal that is
eaten. |
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Two members of the same species fight over who gets a certain food. Members of
different species try to take over a certain nesting area. These are both examples of
a. | community. | c. | mutualism. | b. | competition. | d. | commensalism. |
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In which type of symbiosis do organisms help each other?
a. | parasitism | c. | community | b. | mutualism | d. | commensalism |
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Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores are all
a. | decomposers. | c. | predators. | b. | producers. | d. | consumers. |
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Rocks, temperature, and water are what kind of things?
a. | biotic | c. | population | b. | abiotic | d. | living |
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What living things make food from sunlight?
a. | consumers | c. | decomposers | b. | parasites | d. | producers |
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What is an animal that catches and eats another animal called?
a. | prey | c. | producer | b. | predator | d. | herbivore |
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Bears eat fruits such as berries and animals such as fish. They hibernate in the
winter. They give birth to live young. Which of these terms applies to bears?
a. | They are decomposers | b. | They are omnivores | c. | They are
carnivores | d. | They are herbivores |
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If you made a chart showing all the organisms living in the local lake, with
arrows drawn between the various organisms showing who ate what, what kind of chart would you have
made?
a. | energy pyramid | c. | food web | b. | food chain | d. | ecosystem chart |
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Suppose there were a bird that always sat on a horse's back and ate the
insects that would bite the horse. What would this be an example of?
a. | mutualism | c. | competition | b. | parasitism | d. | commensalism |
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When a parasitic worm invades an animal, who is the host?
a. | the producer | c. | the decomposer | b. | the animal | d. | the worm |
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Use the image below to answer the following questions.

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The arrows on the food web show that
a. | prairie dogs eat grass | c. | squirrels eat grass. | b. | deer eat prairie dogs. | d. | squirrels eat
coyotes. |
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Three organisms on the food web have arrows pointing away from them and no
arrows pointing toward them. They are
a. | omnivores. | c. | decomposers. | b. | herbivores. | d. | producers. |
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What does the arrow between the squirrel and the hawk represent?
a. | energy flowing from producers to consumers | b. | energy flowing from
consumers to producers | c. | energy flowing from the squirrel to the
hawk | d. | energy flowing from the hawk to the squirrel |
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The biome with the greatest variety of plants and animals is
the
a. | desert | c. | temperate grassland. | b. | tundra. | d. | tropical rain
forest. |
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Which biome is found near the equator ?
a. | tundra | c. | tropical rainforest | b. | desert | d. | taiga |
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Which biome would recieve the most snowfall ?
a. | desert | c. | rainforest | b. | tundra | d. | decidous forest |
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Which Biome would recieve the least rainfall ?
a. | tropical rainforest | c. | grasslands | b. | temperate rainforest | d. | decidious
forest |
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Which biome has the lowest yearly temperature ?
a. | taiga | c. | Grasslands | b. | deciduous | d. | rainforests |
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Tennessee, Northern Georgia, and Virginia would be found in which Biome ?
a. | rainforest | c. | decidious forest | b. | tundra | d. | desert |
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Arizona,and New Mexico is which type of Biome ?
a. | grasslands | c. | desert | b. | rainforest |
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Use the following story for questions 31 32 There once was a very large
soccer tournament held at Disney Land. The winning team recieved one million dollars. Teams from all
over the country gather in Florida for the skilled . In all there were 120 teams and a total of
12012 soccer players. Each player was a skilled soccer player In the end the team from Douglas county
won the million dollars.
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Using the soccer tournament story what would be the community
a. | The skilled soccer players | c. | The total of all the soccer players
who traveled to the tournament | b. | The individual
teams |
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In the soccer story who would make up the population ?
a. | The individual soccer players | c. | The total of all the players that
traveled to the tournament | b. | The teams that traveled to the
tournament |
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When two or more individuals or populations try to use the same resources it is
called
a. | Mutualism | c. | Commensalism | b. | Competition | d. | Symbiosis |
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