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Ecosystems and Biomes Test Review
1.
Name a predator-prey relationship.
2.
What biome has the most biodiversity and why?
3. Name the three types of symbiotic relationships and explain each.
4.
What is a major difference between the marine and freshwater biomes?
5.
Name some (at least 3) limiting factors in an environment.
6.
Draw a food chain using the words: producer, carnivore, sun, scavenger, herbivore, and decomposer.
7.
Is there the same amount of energy at the top of an energy pyramid as there is at the bottom of the
pyramid? Why or why not?
8.
What is the difference between an abiotic factor and a biotic factor in an environment?
9.
What are the different types of consumers?
10. True or False: Decomposers and Scavengers are consumers?
11. Why can’t populations keep growing and growing forever?
12. What is an organism’s niche?
13. What is a population and give an example.
14. What is a community and give an example.
15. What is the difference between an ecosystem and a biome?
16. How are the Temperate Deciduous and the Taiga biomes similar? How are they different?
17. How is the tropical savanna different from temperate grassland?
18. What makes a tundra a tundra?
19. What factors determine the types of plants and animals that can live in a biome?
20. Why do a wide variety of plants and animals live in the tropical rainforest?
21. What makes the desert unique from other biomes?
22. The movement of carbon from the environment into living things and back into the environment is
known as the carbon cycle. What process do plants and animals do to return carbon to the
atmosphere?
23. How are human activities influencing the carbon and nitrogen cycles?
24. In what ways can humans reduce the amount of carbon emissions into the atmosphere?