Populations & Ecosystems Quiz

An organism that gets food by eating other organisms? 

• producer 
• consumer
• herbivore 
• decomposer 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What are producers? 

• organisms that store extra food 
• organisms that make their own food
• breaks down dead organisms 
• decomposes nutrients 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is an organism that breaks down dead organisms and wastes to live and grown? 

• herbivore
• consumer
• producer 
• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Most ecosystems have many food chains. What are food chains that overlap in an ecosystem and show feeding relationships? 

• unhealthy
• energy pyramid 
• food web
• matter

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is an ecosystem? 

• producing food from sunlight
• animals that live in certain areas
• living and nonliving things that interact in an area
• a person who studies an environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Consumers that eat both plants and animals are?

• herbivores
• carnivores
• omnivores
• decomposer

Which is NOT an abiotic factor:

• soil
• air
• bacteria;
• water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which of the following is NOT a consumer?

• grass
• dog
• shark
• fish

What year is the zebra population the highest?

• 1920
• 2000
• 1960
• 2020

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

A nonliving element in an ecosystem is an 

• animal
• abiotic factor
• biotic factor
• organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3