WEEKLY ASSESSMENT

BASIC SCIENCE

BASIC 9

Doc. Ref: TRA-EXM-STDA-BSC/2021

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Please take a few minutes to read the instructions before you start. Barakallahu Feekh!

PART A – MULTIPLE CHOICE

Instruction: Choose the correct answer from the options lettered A-D

1. A ___________ makes its own energy and begins the food chain.

A. consumer
B. producer
C. herbivore
D. decomposer

2. A diagram that shows the transfer of energy in one line is a...

A. food web
B. food chain
C. food line
D. food court

3. A _______________ cannot make its own energy and eats only plants for their energy.
A. producer
B. Primary consumer
C. Secondary Consumer
D. Tertiary Consumer

4. A type of consumer that eats primary consumers is called a...

A. Herbivore
B. Prey
C. Tertiary Consumer
D. Secondary Consumer

5. A type of consumer that eats only meat is called a...

A. herbivore
B. carnivore
C. omnivore
D. brucivore

6. _____________ are an example of decomposers.

A. fish
B. bacteria
C. plants
D. seaweed

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7. What is a producer?
A. an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms
B. an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food
C. an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste
D. an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

8. Overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up....

A. food web
B. food chain
C. niche
D. symbiosis

9. A consumer gets energy by doing what?

A. Making it themselves.
B. Breaking down biotic wastes and dead organisms and returning raw materials to the ecosystem.
C. Soaking it up from the ground.
D. Feeding on other organisms.

10.This diagram shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another
in a food web.
A. Energy Pyramid
B. Food Web
C. Ecosystem
D. Food Chain

11.Which of these is always located at the bottom of an energy pyramid?

A. Producer
B. Second-Level Carnivores
C. Herbivores.
D. First-Level Consumers.

12.A third-level consumer has to be which type?

A. Carnviore.
B. Decomposer.
C. Producer.
D. Herbivore.

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13.What most likely happen first if you remove a primary consumer from the ecosystem?
A. There would be more food for secondary consumers.
B. The number of primary consumers would increase.
C. The number of plants would increase.
D. The number of secondary consumers would increase.

14.Transfer of energy is represented by this in a food chain.

A. Circles
B. Arrows
C. neon lights
D. pyramids

15.Which species most likely has the largest population?

A. Herring
B. Phytoplankton
C. Shrimp
D. Shark

16.Identify each correct food chain that demonstrates the energy flow of this food web.
A. Plant>Snail>Bluebird>Eagle
B. Plant<Snail<Bluebird<Eagle
C. Plant>Snail<Bluebird>Eagle
D. Plant<Rabbit<Eagle

17.What is the role of a decomposer in an ecosystem

A. To capture energy of sunlight for plants to make food
B. produce oxygen for plants and animals
C. break down dead organisms and their wastes
D. transport nutrients and other materials among organisms

18.Which organisms are examples of decomposers

A. Rabbit
B. Lions
C. Fungi
D. Trees

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19.When a decomposer dies, its once-living material becomes waste. These wastes are then
A. converted into energy that can be used
B. transformed into bacteria that fungi can eat
C. further decomposed by producers and consumers
D. released into the air, soil, and water or an ecosystem

20.Bacteria have no way to store excess food, so in order to stay active, they
A. store excess food as sugar like animals do
B. stay close to fungi and get energy from them
C. remain in sunny areas so they can make their own food
D. live in places where they can be surrounded by food sources

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SECTION B

Question 1

A. Use the following information to construct a food web: Snails, woodlice, and millipedes feed on dead leaves.
Beetles eat millipedes and beetle larvae eat snails and woodlice. Spiders are also carnivorous. They eat both
beetles and their larvae
B. Which of the animals in question 1 are secondary consumers?
C. What types of living thing are the producers at the starts of food chains?
D. Explain what the arrows in a food web represent

Question 2
A. Why do big carnivores such as lions need a large territory with plenty of vegetation?
B. Name two sorts of decomposer.
C. Why are mangrove forests important to local people
D. List three things that could reduce the population of an animal species

Question 3
A. When the bird population on Guam dropped, the number of tree snakes still continued to rise. Why was
this?
B. Some people want to destroy the spiders so tourists are not frightened away. Use the food web to
explain why destroying the spiders could ruin the island.
C. What does it mean if an ecosystem has a high biodiversity?
D. Give one reason why it is useful to have many different varieties of each crop plant.

Question 4
A. In the desert, insects eat plants and foxes eat lizards. Most of the insects are eaten by lizards.

a Draw a sketch that links these animals to form a food chain.

b How would the number of lizards change if the foxes all died?

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B. This food chain is found in the Antarctic: Phytoplankton> krill >squid> penguin> seal
Name an organism from the food chain that fits each of these categories:
a predator
b prey
c herbivore
d tertiary consumer
e primary consumer
f in the first trophic level
g in the highest trophic level.

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