Environmental Science Pretest

What is an organism that gets its food through eating other sources?

• Consumer
• Producer
• Autotroph
• Decomposers

Which is not a type of symbiotic relationship?

• mutualism
• commensalism
• predation
• parasitism

What are the biotic factors in this image?

• sunlight, elephants, and grasses
• sunlight, water,  and air
• elephants, plants, trees 
• Don't know

What are the abiotic factors in this image? 

• water, sunlight, dirt, air
• birds and plants
• water, plants, and birds 
• Don't know

Put the levels of organization in an ecosystem in order from the largest to the smallest. 

• population, organism, community
• organism, community, population
• community, population, organism
• Don't know

In this diagram, removing which biotic factor will have the MOST impact on this food chain?

• sun
• grass
• grasshopper
• robin

Ecosystem

• To feed on both plants and animals
• System of several overlapping food chains
• All the living/nonliving factors in an area

Without the greenhouse effect, Earth's atmosphere would be __________ to support life.

• too hot

• too wet

• too dry

• too cold

The distance North or South of the equator, as measured in degrees is called

• altitude

• latitude

• longitude

• magnitude

Based on the graph, which country releases the most Greenhouse Gases?

• Russia
• Brazil
• China
• U.S.