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Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Which statement is most true for the food web shown?
Food Web
  1. The bird, snake, and mouse are all producers.
  2. The bird, snake, and mouse are all consumers.
  3. The mushrooms and the grass are both decomposers.
  4. The mushrooms are producers, and the grass is a decomposer.
Grade 5 Biomes
Which is the best description of animals that live in a desert ecosystem?
  1. They are light-colored, camouflaged to blend in, and are most active at night.
  2. They are covered with fur to keep them insulated, and they require a lot of water.
  3. They are equipped with webbed feet, and they stay in the water most of the day.
  4. They are bright-colored, easily seen in their surroundings, and active during the day.
Grade 5 Biomes
Tundra is one of the biomes with the most biodiversity.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Conservation and Biodiversity
Maintaining biodiversity is important because biodiversity
  1. uses resources.
  2. destroys habitats.
  3. uses up land.
  4. helps the environment.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
If a squirrel was added to this diagram, it would be on the same tropic level as the
Food Web
  1. bird.
  2. snake.
  3. mouse.
  4. mushroom.
Grade 5 Biomes
The tundra biome tends to be                 and lacks                .
  1. wet; trees
  2. dry; rocks
  3. hot; animals
  4. cold; rainfall
Grade 5 Biomes
A community of animals and plants on a large scale, defined mainly by vegetation is a(n)
  1. ecosystem.
  2. rainforest.
  3. grassland.
  4. biome.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A                 consumer eats primary consumers.
  1. producer
  2. secondary
  3. decomposer
  4. tertiary
Grade 5 Biotic and Abiotic
Which of the following is NOT an abiotic factor in an ecosystem?
  1. bacteria
  2. minerals
  3. soil
  4. water
Grade 5 Biotic and Abiotic
The parts of Earth that contain living organisms make up the
  1. atmosphere.
  2. biosphere.
  3. hydrosphere.
  4. megasphere.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
What type of consumer eats only producers?
  1. herbivore
  2. omnivore
  3. plant
  4. carnivore
Grade 5 Biomes
What biome has year-round rain and warm temperatures, soil poor in nutrients, and many different types of organisms?
  1. tropical rainforest
  2. taiga
  3. hot desert
  4. prairie grassland
Grade 5 Conservation and Biodiversity
Which situation does not maintain biodiversity?
  1. growing a variety of plants on a farm
  2. protecting all the species in an ecosystem
  3. protecting the habitats in an ecosystem
  4. removing an important predator from the ecosystem
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
The movement of energy that occurs in an ecosystem can be represented as a(n)
  1. timeline.
  2. energy map.
  3. food web.
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A herbivore is an animal that only eats plants.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
When a plant or animal is dead, what grows on it?
  1. consumers
  2. producers
  3. decomposers
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
A zebra eats grass and then is eaten by a lion. What is the predator in this situation?
  1. grass
  2. zebra
  3. lion
  4. Sun
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
Which series correctly describes how energy is passed among the four organisms?
  1. consumer, consumer, decomposer, producer
  2. decomposer, consumer, consumer, producer
  3. producer, consumer, consumer, decomposer
  4. consumer, decomposer, producer, consumer
Grade 5 Food Chains and Webs
What is a consumer?
  1. organism that makes its own food
  2. patterns of body color for hiding
  3. organism that must eat to get energy
  4. behavior that organisms inherit
Grade 5 Symbiosis
What is a relationship in which one organism benefits from another without helping or harming it?
  1. parasitism
  2. mutualism
  3. commensalism
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