Name: Smith, Mark Lister P.

Course/Section: BSEd-Science

TABLE OF SPECIFICATION
Science 10 (3rd Quarter)

Cognitive complexities

Objectives/ Duration Remembering/ Application/ Evaluating/ No. of Item

Topics (Hours) Understanding Analytical Creating items Location
(30%) (50%) (20%)

Ecosystem 3 3 5 2 10 1-10

(1-3) (4-8) (9-10)

Flow of
energy and
matter in 5 5 9 3 17 11-27
ecosystem
(11-15) (16-24) (25-27)
Biodiversity
and 4 4 6 3 13 28-40
Stability
(28-31) (32-37) (38-40)

12 hours 12 items 20 items 8 items 40 items

 TEST
Science 10 (3rd Quarter)

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Directions: Read and choose the BEST answer for the following
questions. Write only the letter of the correct answer before the number.
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 C. Producer
B. 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 C. Second Trophic Level
B. first 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. Pressure energy
21. In how many areas the energy that is received by organisms during transfer is
converted?
A. One C. Three
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. Below is one of the reasons for the loss of biodiversity
A. Eating more food by humans C. Drinking more water by humans
B. Global ecosystem D. Exotics species
33. Below is the type of Ecosystem biodiversity
A. aquatic C. terrestrial
B. dessert D. all 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
 ANSWER KEY

1. A 11. C 21. C 31. B

2. C 12. A 22. A 32. D
3. A 13. A 23. B 33. D
4. D 14. D 24. C 34. D
5. C 15. B 25. C 35. C
6. D 16. C 26. A 36. B
7. D 17. A 27. D 37. D
8. D 18. C 28. D 38. B
9. A 19. B 29. B 39. D
10. C 20. A 30. B 40. C