From the option given, write the letter of your choice on the blank before the number to answer each
item.
_____3. At the beginning of every food chain in an ecosystem are the _________
a. producers c. decomposers
b. herbivores d. primary consumers
_____4. A wolf eats a rabbit that eats grass on a prairie. The wolf is a __________
a. First c. third
b. second d. either both b or c is correct
a. 1% c. 20%
b. 10% d. nearly 85%
a. true b. false
_____15. A pyramid of biomass takes into account the size or weight of the organism
a. true b. false
_______________1. A drawing showing the relative sizes of different trophic levels in terms of energy,
mass, or numbers.
_______________4. More realistic and complex view of food chain, showing how many organisms
occupy more than one trophic level.
_______________ 5. Refers the use of heat as a convenient measurement of chemical energy in any
reaction.
III. On the space before the number, write letter T if the statement is true, write F if the statement is
false.
_____1. The water and carbon cycles are good examples of organisms interacting with their
environment.
_____2. In all ecosystem, matter is continuously cycled through living organism and the environment
through biological cycles.
_____3. In the water cycle, plants release water back to the environment through the process of
transpiration
_____4. In the water cycle, animals release water back to the environment through the process of
respiration.
_____5. In the carbon cycle, photosynthetic organisms use carbon dioxide to produce sugar molecules.
_____ 7. Through respiration and decay, carbon is released back to the environment.
_____8. If organism decay in an environment with little water, carbon may become fossil fuel over time.
_____13. Nitrogen gas is an easily used source of nitrogen for most organism.
_____14. Compound of sulfur is also present in vehicular smoke.
_____15. The process of converting nitrogen gas into nitrate is called denitrification.
_____17. Nitrogen found in animal waste or the remains of plants and animals is converted to ammonia
by decomposer bacteria.
_____18. Nitrogen gas is converted by nitrifying bacteria into nitrite and then into nitrate.
_____19. Denitrifying bacteria convert nitrate into nitrogen gas, thus returning nitrogen to the
environment.
_____21. Among the chemicals that cycle, only phosphorus does not enter into the atmosphere.
_____23. Run-off leached phosphate, nitrates, and sulfates in the soil to bodies of water.
_____24. Sulfur dioxide becomes available in the atmosphere through volcanic eruption.