Science Ch 7

Question 1

What is the transfer of energy and nutrients through a community called?
a. migration
b. symbiosis
c. a food chain
d. instincts

Answer 1

c. a food chain

Question 2

What is an animal that hunts and eats other animals called?
a. the prey
b. the producer
c. the predator
d. the decomposer

Answer 2

c. the predator

Question 3

What occurs whenever two or more organisms are trying to use the same recourses?
a. instincts
b. competition
c. hibernation
d. migration

Answer 3

b. competition

Question 4

What organism does a food chain begin with?
a. producer
b. carnivore
c. herbivore
d. omnivore

Answer 4

a. producer

Question 5

What are special characteristics or skills that help living things survive in their environments?
a. symbiosis
b. adaptations
c. parasites
d. learned behaviors

Answer 5

b. adaptations

Question 6

What is a special partnership in which two species interact with each other over a long period of time?
a. hibernation
b. stomata
c. symbiosis
d. competition

Answer 6

c. symbiosis

Question 7

what provides energy for all living things
a. producers
b. the sun
c. consumers
d. decomposer

Answer 7

b. the sun

Question 8

Organisms that get their energy directly from the sun and change the energy into a form that other organisms can use are

A. consumers
b. decomposers
c. producers

Answer 8

c. producers

Question 9

Organisms that break down dead things and wastes are

A. consumers
b. decomposers
c. producers

Answer 9

b. decomposers

Question 10

Organisms that depend on producers for food are

A. consumers
b. decomposers
c. producers

Answer 10

A. consumers

Question 11

Which type of organism eats both plants and animals?
a. producer
b. carnivore
c. herbivore
d. omnivore

Answer 11

d. omnivore