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Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
On the diagram below, which would be a secondary consumer?
Food Web
  1. grass
  2. mouse
  3. snake
  4. bird
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
What is an animal that eats herbivores?
  1. omnivore
  2. herbivore
  3. carnivore
  4. decomposer
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
What is an animal that eats a producer?
  1. consumer
  2. decomposer
  3. prey
Grade 5 Communities, Populations, and Ecosystems
What are the living and nonliving factors in an environment and all their interactions?
  1. community
  2. ecology
  3. food web
  4. ecosystem
Grade 5 Biomes
How are tundra and desert ecosystems similar?
  1. They both have rich soil.
  2. They both support a lot of plant life.
  3. They both receive little rainfall.
  4. They both have extremely warm temperatures.
Grade 5 Biomes
A                 is an example of a biome.
  1. pond
  2. bacteria
  3. grassland
  4. mammal
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
What is most likely the next organism in this food chain?

blackberries --> squirrel -->                
  1. fox
  2. acorn
  3. mouse
  4. deer
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Food webs illustrate
  1. that energy passes from organism to organism.
  2. where animals live.
  3. the differences in organisms.
Grade 5 Communities, Populations, and Ecosystems
In an ecosystem, birds depend on insects to survive. If pesticides are spread to control the insect population, the bird population will most likely
  1. increase.
  2. decrease.
  3. decrease, then increase.
  4. increase, then decrease.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A carnivore is an animal that eats only meat.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Biomes
Saltwater ecosystems include
  1. lakes and ponds.
  2. oceans and estuaries.
  3. rivers and streams.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
                break down dead plants and animals.
  1. Decomposers
  2. Producers
  3. Consumers
  4. Prey
Grade 5 Biomes
Which biome is home to more species than any other biome?
  1. taiga
  2. grassland
  3. deciduous forest
  4. tropical rainforest
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A food chain begins when
  1. an animal eats another animal.
  2. an animal eats a green plant.
  3. a plant eats an insect.
  4. an animal eats the remains of a dead tree.
Grade 5 Biotic and Abiotic
A nonliving factor such as light or temperature is a(n)                    .
  1. organism.
  2. abiotic factor.
  3. range of tolerance.
  4. biotic factor.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A decomposer is an organism that
  1. eats plants only.
  2. breaks down dead things.
  3. has died.
  4. eats meat only.
Grade 5 Biomes
What biome has long, cold winters and short, cold summers; mostly small plants; and soil frozen year-round?
  1. temperate deciduous forest
  2. tropical rainforest
  3. cold desert
  4. tundra
Grade 5 Biomes
This is the wettest biome and receives the most rainfall. There is much diversity in its organisms, and it is near the equator. The soil quality is poor, so plants get energy from decomposing animals and plants. Most animals, such as monkeys, snakes, and insects live in the trees. What is this biome?
  1. desert
  2. tundra
  3. deciduous forest
  4. tropical rain forest
Grade 5 Biomes
In which type of ecosystem would both algae and tadpoles most likely be found?
  1. estuary
  2. pond
  3. tide pool
  4. coral reef
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
What is the energy path that goes from producers to consumers to decomposers and describes the feeding relationships in an ecosystem?
  1. community
  2. food chain
  3. niche
  4. food web
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