Name ____________________________________
Ecology and Cycles Quiz Review
1. Define Ecology: ___________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________.
2. What are abiotic factors? __________________________________________________.
3. What are biotic factors? ____________________________________________________.
4. In the picture shown to the right, List at least 2 biotic
and 2 abiotic factors.
Abiotic Factors
Biotic Factors
1) ____________________
1) ________________________
2) _____________________
2) ________________________
Levels of an Environment
Identify the 5 levels of the environment from biggest to smallest
________________ _________________________________________________________________
Biggest------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Smallest
What is the difference between a Population and a community?
__________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________.
What is the difference between a Community and an ecosystem?
__________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________.
How Organisms Acquire Energy
5. Producer: organisms that use energy from the _________ to produce ___________
6. Consumer: organisms that __________(consume) other organisms for energy
Types of Consumers: (define)
Herbivore: ______________________________________________________________________________.
Carnivore: ______________________________________________________________________________.
Omnivore: ______________________________________________________________________________.
Scavenger: ______________________________________________________________________________.
7. Decomposers: organisms that get their food by _________ ____________ the remains of dead
organisms or animal waste
Energy Pyramid- Fill in the following organisms in the correct place on the Energy Pyramid
Word bank:
Rabbit
Wolf
Grass
Vulture
8. Which organism would have the greatest amount
of energy? _______________________.
9. Which organism would have the least amount of
energy? _________________________.
10. As you move up the Energy Pyramid, explain how the
biomass (number of organisms) is affected?
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
Food Webs and Food Chains
Define: Food Chain _____________________________________________________________
Define: Food Web______________________________________________________________
_____ 11. The mouse would be considered a ________:
a. Producer
b. Primary Consumer
c. Secondary Consumer
d. Scavenger
______12. Which organism would be considered a
13. Identify one of the food chains in the food web.
herbivore?
a. Grass
b. Grasshopper
c. Mouse
d. Owl
14. Identify an organism that would be impacted if
the birds were removed from the ecosystem.
Cycles
15. Label the cycle
Word Bank
evaporation
transpiration
precipitation
surface runoff
groundwater
accumulation
condensation
The Carbon Cycle
16. The burning of fossil fuels is called
_____________________
17. Which process removes carbon dioxide
from the atmosphere?
_____________________
18. Cell Respiration
(adds / removes)
carbon from the atmosphere
The Nitrogen Cycle
19. How is nitrogen converted in a form that
plants can use?
Succession
20. There is a fire, and plants recover
and regrow in the area. What type of
succession is this an example of and
why?