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Science Midterm Practice Questions

This document consists of additional science midterm practice questions covering topics such as ecosystems, food chains, and various ecological concepts. It includes definitions, examples, and explanations of terms like population, community, producer, consumer, and decomposer. The questions also address relationships between organisms and their environments, energy flow in food chains, and factors affecting population growth.

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Science Midterm Practice Questions

This document consists of additional science midterm practice questions covering topics such as ecosystems, food chains, and various ecological concepts. It includes definitions, examples, and explanations of terms like population, community, producer, consumer, and decomposer. The questions also address relationships between organisms and their environments, energy flow in food chains, and factors affecting population growth.

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Additional Science Midterm Practice Questions Name________

1. Living things and their environment


a) What is a population?

b) What is a community?

c) What is an ecosystem?

d) Label or circle ecosystem, community, population and individual in the following graph.

e) Tell which animal is a predator and which is a prey.

f) Tell if each of the following examples is an ecosystem, a community, a population or an individual.

a rice field a pond a rabbit

a forest a group of people all the animals in the zoo


Additional Science Midterm Practice Questions Name________

g) What is the difference between an ecosystem and a community?

h) What is an herbivore? Give one example.

i) What is a carnivore? Give one example.

j) What is an omnivore? Give one example.

m) Rank the following terms from the smallest to the largest in size.

population ecosystem organism community

2. Food Chain

a) What is a food chain?

b) What is a producer?

c) What is a consumer?

d) What is a decomposer? What is the role of a decomposer in an ecosystem?

e) Name 3 examples of a decomposer.

f) Can an ecosystem survive without producers? Explain your answer.

g) Can an ecosystem survive without decomposers? Explain your answer.


Additional Science Midterm Practice Questions Name________

h) Use the following organisms to create a food chain.

the Sun grass rabbit snake hawk

• What is the main energy source?


• Which organism is at the top of the food chain?
• Which organism is at the bottom of the food chain?
• Which organism is the last consumer in the food chain?
• Which organism plays the role of a decomposer in the food chain?
• What is the producer in the food chain?
• Find all the herbivores and carnivores in the food chain.

i) Explain what the 10% rule? What happens to the 90% of the energy?

j) What is a carrying capacity?

k) Every ecosystem has a carrying capacity. Do you agree?

l) If the population size is greater than the carrying capacity, then the population size will _________.

m) What a limiting factor to a population?

n) Give 3 limiting factors that restrict the population growth.

o) In a food chain, what do the arrows mean?


Additional Science Midterm Practice Questions Name________

p) The following image shows a/an____________.

1. What are the biotic factors?

2. What are the abiotic factors?

q) A ________ is an organism that eats another organism. The _________ is the organism which is
being eaten.

r) Energy enters food chains through the process of ___________.

s) In mutualism, both organisms ___________.

t) In commensalism, one organism benefits, the other organism is neither helped nor _________.

u) In parasitism, one organism benefits, the other organism is __________.

v) Whale and barnacles:

dog and ticks

bee and flower

plants are competing for sunlight, nutrients, and water.

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