Matter and Energy in the Environment Chapter Test A Multiple Choice 1.

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Chapter Test A
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Multiple Choice
Directions: On the line before each question, write the letter of the correct answer.
1. What are the living parts of an ecosystem called?
A. biotic factors
B. abiotic factors
C. atmospheric factors
2. Which example describes a consumer?
A. an organism that makes its own food
B. an organism that eats other organisms
C. an organism that breaks down dead material for food
3. What does an herbivore eat?
A. plants only
B. animals only
C. plants and animals
Matching
Directions: On the line before each definition, write the letter of the term that matches it correctly. Each term is
used only once.
4. a mouse that eats corn and grass
A. carnivore
5. an owl that eats mice
B. herbivore
6. a person who eats meat, vegetables, and fruits
C. omnivore
Matching Set 2
7. organisms that eat other organisms
D. climate
8. using carbon dioxide, water, and light energy to
E. ecosystem
make food
9. all the living and nonliving things in a given area
F. consumers
G. photosynthesis
10. average weather over a period of time
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Matching Set 1
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Interpreting a Diagram
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Directions: Use the diagram to respond to each statement.
11. Tell what this diagram is called.
12. Explain why a pyramid shape is used for this diagram.
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Short Answer
Directions: Respond to each statement on the lines provided.
13. Describe evaporation and condensation.
14. Define abiotic factor and biotic factor. Tell which abiotic factor and which biotic factor
is found in soil—water, worm, leaf, or rock.
15. Arrange the following elements into a food chain: plants, snake, Sun, hawk, mouse.
Directions: Respond to each statement on the lines provided.
16. Burning fossil fuels for heating and transportation releases carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere. Explain how adding carbon to the atmosphere can affect the carbon
cycle and ecosystems. Use the term greenhouse gas or greenhouse effect in your answer.
17. Define food chain.
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