Directions: Read each item carefully.

Write
only the letter of the correct answer for
each question. Use a separate sheet of
paper for your answers.

1. What do you call the living organisms

that inhabit an environment?
A. Survivors
B. Community
C. Biotic factors
D. Abiotic factors
2. Which of the following choices are abiotic
factors?
A. Crabs, fish, and oxygen
B. Oxygen, soil, and sunlight,
C. Algae, dog, and temperature,
D. Mushroom, sunlight, and temperature

3. Which of the following statements is

true?
A. All living things are biotic factors
B. Most living things are abiotic factors
C. Some nonliving things are biotic factors
D. Living things can either be biotic or
abiotic
4. All of the items below are abiotic EXCEPT
A. Grasses
B. Soil
C. Sun
D. Temperature

5. Which of the following conditions is NOT

an ecosystem?
A. An empty aquarium
B. A growing flower in a pot
C. Mountains surrounded by trees
D. Large bodies of oceans and lakes
6. What do you call the living parts of the
environment, such as humans, animals,
and plants?
A. Biosphere
B. Ecosystem
C. Biotic factors
D. Abiotic factors

7. In which place do biotic and abiotic

factors interact?
A. Ecosystem
B. House
C. Niche
D. Shelter
8. Which of the following is an example of
an abiotic factor?
A. Bugs
B. Ferns
C. Minerals
D. Zebra

9. Which of the following is another term

for nonliving things?
A. Biotic factor
B. Abiotic factor
C. Limiting factor
D. Carrying capacity
10. How will you classify the factors such as
sunlight, oxygen, air, and rocks?
A. Abiotic
B. Alive
C. Biotic
D. Living

11. In a predation relationship between

snake and mice, what organism is the
hunter?
A. Decomposer
B. Mice
C. Prey
D. Snake
12. Between a lion and a deer, which one is
killed and eventually eaten by the
predator?
A. Deer
B. Host
C. Lion
D. Parasite

13. Which of the following is NOT an

external parasite?
A. Fleas
B. Intestinal worms
C. Leech
D. Ticks
14. Which one is hunted and eaten in a
particular feeding relationship?
A. Commensal
B. Decomposer
C. Predator
D. Prey

15. What relationship describes a close

interaction between two different species?
A. Competition
B. Non-symbiotic
C. Predation
D. Symbiotic
16. Which relationship that an organism
benefits, while the other is unaffected?
A. Bee and flower
B. Hawk and snake
C. Lichens on a bark of a tree
D. Dogs fighting over a piece of bone

17. An orchid uses a bark of a tree as a safe

place to live. While living there, the
tree provides space and shelter for the
orchid. This is an example of what type
of relationship?
A. Commensalism C. Decomposition
B. Competition D. Parasitism
18. A leech feeds on the blood of different
organisms. This usually causes discomfort to
the organism and sometimes disease and
death. What relationship is being displayed
between leech and the organisms?
A. Commensalism C. Decomposition
B. Competition D. Parasitism

19. Which relationship shows that both

organisms benefit each other?
A. Intestinal worms and human
B. Leech and carabao
C. Bee and flower
D. Tiger and deer
20.Is the relationship that exists between a
flower and a bee called mutualism?
A. Yes, because the bee gets the pollen and the flower is
affected.
B. Yes, because the flower is pollinated through the bee.
C. No, because both do not benefit from one another.
D. No, because the bee harms the flower.

21.Ecology is to ecosystem, as ecosystem is

to .
A. living things
B. nonliving things
C. ecological relationships
D. living things and physical environment

22.What happens if two organisms rely on

the same limited resource?
A. Competition
B. Decomposition
C. Extinction
D. Photosynthesis

23. Water is pumped from a well and used

to irrigate a piece of land. What kind of
change is this?
A. Community
B. Population
C. Biotic factor
D. Abiotic factor

24. Which of the following abiotic factors is

made up of bits of rocks, water, air,
minerals, and the remains of once living
things.?
A. Atmosphere
B. Soil
C. Sunlight
D. Water

25. Which of the following abiotic factors

provides living things with Nitrogen,
Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide and other gases?
A. Atmosphere
B. Sunlight
C. Soil
D. Water