Date: May 2, 2023

B. IMPROVING MULTIPLE CHOICE ITEMS

Write an improve version of each item based on the guidelines not observed in the review you
have done in exercise A.

MULTIPLE-CHOICE ITEM IMPROVE VERSION

1. What is an ecosystem?
A. All the interacting organism that lives in an
environment and the abiotic parts of the
environment that affect the organisms.
B. A person who observes and studies the
interactions between the abiotic and biotic
parts of the environment.
C. The relationship among the biotic part of the
environment.
D. The relationship among the abiotic part of
the environment.

2. The relationship between all the abiotic

elements of a pond. When we study a(n)
______, we are concerned with the community
plus its physical and chemical environment.
A. Habitat C. Ecosystem
B. Niche D. Population

3. An organism that creates its own food is called:

A. Producer C. Consumer
B. Scavenger D. a
decomposer
4. An________Includes all living and non-living
things in an environment
A. Population C. Abiotic
B. Niche D. Ecosystem
5. Temperature, light, air, water, soil, and climate
are all parts of the environment.
A. Biotic C. Abiotic
B. Boreal D. Living

6. _____are consumers that eat only meat.

A. Herbivore C. Producer
B. Omnivore D. Carnivore

7. Are consumers that eat plants and meat.

A. Herbivore C.
Decomposer
B. Carnivore D. Omnivore
8. Which organism make their own food through
the process of photosynthesis?
A. Decomposer C. Consumer
B. Herbivore D. Producer

9. How does Energy enter an ecosystem.

A. Sunlight C. Soil
B. Animals D. Humans

10. A primary consumer.

A. Is an animal at the top of the food chain
B. Is a carnivore
C. Is an animal at the beginning of the food
chain
D. Is a decomposer

11. A secondary consumer gets his energy from

A. The sun
B. C. Producer
C. From one consumer to other
D. Eating dead plants and animals

12. The ability for a system to do work or produce

heat
A. Energy C. autotrophs
B. Heat D.
Photosynthesis

13. An organism’s position on a food chain

A. Trophic level C. Food cycle
B. Food web D. Food pyramid

14. A consumer is?

A. An organism that produces its own food.
B. An organism that does not need food to
survive.
C. An abiotic organism.
D. An organism that cannot produce its own
food.
15. Space where an organism lives and the role an
organism plays within its ecosystem is referred
to as a:
A. Population C. Community
B. Niche D. Biosphere

16. When population share their environment and

interact with populations of other species, it is
called:
 A. Biome C. community
B. Organism D. population

17. The basis for the energy in an ecosystem is

provided by.
A. Producer C. Autotrophs
B. Consumer D. Heterotrophs
18. Which of the following statement about energy
transfer in a food is true?
A. The energy transfer in a food chain
proceeds through a series of producers
B. In food chain, energy moves both upward
and downward through one biotic element to
another.
C. Only some of the light and heat from the sun
is absorbed by producers
D. About 90% of the energy taken in by a food
source is available to the organism that
consumes it
19. Green plants occupy the following trophic level
in an ecosystem.
A. complete food chain
B. first trophic level
C. Second Trophic Level
D. Third Trophic level

20. which form of sun’s energy is trapped by the

producers in the energy flow?
A. Light energy C. wind energy
B. Chemical energy D. energy

21. In how many areas the energy that is received

by organisms during transfer is converted?
A. One C. Thee
B. Two D. Four

22. There is always a loss of energy as heat during

energy flows through an ecosystem.
A. True
B. False
C. Maybe
23. Energy flow is cyclic?
A. True
B. False
C. Maybe
24. What is called to the process of breaking down
food to yield energy?
A. Oxidation C. Cellular
Respiration
B. Photosynthesis D. Respiration
25. are autotrophic organisms with the ability to
carry on photosynthesis and to make food for
themselves.
A. Herbivores C. Producers
B. Carnivores D. Consumer

26. It is generally stated that only about _____%of

the energy available at one trophic level is
incorporated into the tissues of animals at the
next level.
A. 10 C. 20
B. 15 D. 30

27. Less energy is available at each successive

trophic level of the pyramid of energy because
__________.
A. only a fraction of the available food is
captured by the next trophic level
B. some of the food is eaten be digested
C. only a portion of the food that is digested
becomes part of the organism's body
D. All the above

28. What is Biodiversity?

A. It is environmental science
B. It is subject in biology
C. is distinction in biology subject
D. It is varieties of life on earth

29. In some areas there is an exceptionally high

level of biodiversity and this area is called as
__________.
A. cold spot C. population spot
B. hot spots D. none of above

30. . ___________biodiversity related to habitat in

an area.
A. Genetic C. species
B. Ecosystem D. all the above

31. Below is not the threat to biodiversity

A. Pollution C. Natural calamities
B. Cellphone D. Human
Population
32. . ___________biodiversity related to habitat in
an area.
C. Genetic C. species
D. Ecosystem D. all the above
33. Below is the type of Ecosystem biodiversity
A. aquatic C. terrestrial
B. dessert D. None of the
above

34. Human threats to biodiversity include:

A. Population growth C. Habitat
destruction
B. Pollution D. None of the
above

35. Which of the following habitat have most

biodiversity?
A. Antarctica C. Amazon
rainforest
B. Sahara Desert D. North pole

36. The protection, management and preservation

of genetic diversity, species and ecosystems is
called
A. Restoration of biodiversity
B. conservation of biodiversity
C. management of biodiversity
D. destruction of biodiversity
37. Invasive species is threat to biodiversity
because__________
A. they can be harmful to humans
B. they can cause harm to the environment
C. they can outcompete native organisms for
their resources
D. all the above

38. biodiversity is also called as the gamma

biodiversity in which there are a wide variety of
different plants and animals and different kind of
other organisms living together
A. Genetic C. Ecosystem
B. Global D. Population

39. It is also responsible for extinction of many

species of animals
A. Deforestation C. Illegal
hunting
B. Exotic species D. all the above

40. richness is the number of specific individual

organism in that area which is rich in number
A. Genetic C. Species
B. Ecosystem D. Population