5 th and 6 th Grade Science Ecology Review 3 City Academy Science Name: DIRECTIONS: Below is a cumulative review of the ecology unit. All questions are to be answered to the best of your ability in order to be considered complete. Reviews completed and corrected entitle students to use their notes for the last five minutes of the quiz. The review is due Wednesday, May 6 with a quiz scheduled for Thursday, May 7. Students are to study for their quiz 20 minutes each night prior to the quiz using their notes, reviews and quizzes. IDENTIFICATION: Label each of the parts of the illustration below by identifying what the arrows are pointing at. Answer the questions that follow. Completed on time Complete sentences Fixed all answers Handed in day of quiz 0 7 2 9 8 6 4 3 5. Which biomes can be found throughout the polar climate region of the planet? Which lines are the boundaries to the polar climate regions? 2. Give a name to each of the biomes described below using the criteria as a guide. A hilly, tropical biome with a warm, wet climate and soil with humus from leaves: An open temperate biome with a changing, arid climate and soil with humus from grass: A mountainous biome at high elevations found throughout the planet: A hilly, polar biome with a cold climate and soil with humus from pine needles: An open tropical biome with a warm climate and soil with humus from grass: A hilly, temperate biome with a changing climate and soil with humus from leaves: An open temperate biome with a changing climate and soil with humus from grasses:
SHORT ANSWER: Answer each of the following questions correctly using complete sentences.. What is an ecosystem? What are the two groups all parts of an ecosystem are divided into? How is one group different from the other? 2. How is a community different from an ecosystem? 3. What is an adaptation? What are the two different types of adaptations and how are they different from one another? What is the purpose of any adaptation an organism has or does? 4. Define what an organism is. What is a habitat? What must be found in a habitat in order for an organism to live there? 5. Why are there two different definitions for niche? Give an example of a niche in a stream habitat for a fish and a frog. 6. What do all autotrophs and heterotrophs share in common? How does an autotroph obtain its energy? How does a heterotroph obtain its energy? What are the two major types of heterotrophs and how are they different?
7. How does a carnivorous decomposer differ from a herbivorous decomposer? How does a producer get its food? 8. What is a food chain? What are three rules all food chains follow? What is the difference between a predator and a prey species? 9. Below is the incomplete model of a food chain. Identify and explain each component of the food chain that corresponds to the number lines. Answers do not need to be in complete sentences. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. What is a limiting factor? Give three examples of limiting factors in an aquatic ecosystem. What are three possible effects of limited resources on population growth? What is carrying capacity?
IDENTIFICATION: Label each of the parts of energy pyramid below by identifying the different numbers throughout the diagram. Answer the questions that follow using complete sentences. 5 7 AMOUNT OF ENERGY 2 POPULATION SIZE 3 6 4 8. How is a tertiary consumer different from a primary consumer? What event could cause ecological collapse and why would it cause such a thing? 2. Which group in the pyramid relies on the sun directly for energy? Why does this group require the sun for energy? What other groups rely on the sun indirectly for energy? What does it mean to rely on the sun indirectly? 3. What is biomass? Why does biomass decrease as you go up each level?
FLOW CHART: Complete the flow chart below using information about trophic roles and food chains. TROPHIC ROLES how organisms get the energy they need to survive all plants, some bacteria and some protists are producers most animals, some bacteria, and some protists are consumers all fungi, some animals, some bacteria and some protists are decomposers consumers and decomposers have different titles depending on what they eat consumers that hunt or are hunted for food are given different names LABEL: Label all ten of the major characteristics shared by all organisms (living things) on Earth. living organism