summative science 6

8/13/2019 Summative Science 6

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/summative-science-6 1/3

SUMMATIVE TEST IN SCIENCE VI

NAME:______________________________________ DATE: AUGUST 7, 2009 GRADE SIX-

_______SCORE___________

I. Write the etter !" the #!rre#t $%&'er.

 _____1. Why plants called producers? They _____________.

a. Consume food

b. Make their own food

c. Provide food for other oranisms

d. !ll of the above

 ______ ". Why animals called consumers? They ______________.

a. #o not eat plants

b. Produce their own food

c. #epend on other plants food

d. #epend on plants for protection

 ______ $. Which of the followin can cause dead plants and animals to decay and turn

into useful substances?

a. Mosses

b. Producers

c. Consumers

d. #ecomposers

 ______ %. Which of these materials is &'T needed durin photosynthesis?

a. Carbon dio(ide

b. Waterc. )unliht

d. '(yen

 _______ *. The transfer of food enery from the producers to a series of consumer is

called

a. +ood web

b. +ood chain

c. +ood cycle

d. !ll of the above

 ________ ,. Plant ives off______ which animals and human beins breathe in order to live.

a. Carbon dio(ide

b. '(yen

c. Carbon mono(ide

d. -ydroen

 ________ .What activity can disturb the carbon dio(ide o(yen cycle in an a/uarium?

a. Placin enouh amount of water.

8/13/2019 Summative Science 6

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/summative-science-6 2/3

b. Placin e/ual amount of plants and fishes.

c. Puttin too many fishes with small amount of plants.

d. Placin the a/uarium in a place where there is enouh sunliht.

 ________ 0. Which is the correct se/uence of oranisms in a food chain?

a.icerain chick hawk decomposersb. Chick hawk rice rains decomposers

c. -awk rice rains decomposers chicks

d. ice rains decomposers chick hawk

 ________ 2. What does a food web show? 3t shows

a. ! series of food links

b. The role of the consumers

c. ! series of eatin activities

d. !n interlink amon food chain

 ________ 14. What is the role of producers in a food chain?

a. They make their own food.

b. They feed primary consumers.

c. They replace nutrients in the soil.

d. They provide o(yen in the air.

 ________ 11. Photosynthesis is performed by

a. -erbivores

b. Producers

c. Primary consumers

d. decomposers

 _________ 1". The role or profession of an oranism in an ecosystem is its

a. -abitat

b. Consumption

c. 5coloical niche

d. Production

 _________1$.What happens in a food chain?

a. 5nery is lost to the air.

b. 5nery is transferred from producer to consumer.

c. 5nery is transferred from consumer to producer.

d. 5nery is increased from consumer to another consumer.

 _________1%. Why are decomposers important?

a. They break down comple( wastes into simple materials.

b. They provide carbon dio(ide and o(yen to the soil.

c. They deplete the soil of nitroen and other minerals.

d. They make the soil dry.

8/13/2019 Summative Science 6

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/summative-science-6 3/3

 _________1*. What is transferred in a food web?

a. Parasites

b. Predators

c. 5nery

d. Water

33. +ill in the blanks. Choose your answer from the list below.

1,. Plants are called_______________________ because they manufacture their own food.

1. __________________ shows the path way of food from producers to a series of consumers.

10. When several food chains are interwoven and takin place in a particular community6 a

 ___________________ results.

12. The chemical enery of food taken from the plants is trans fomed in the bodies of

 ______________________.

"4. The_____________ is the main source of enery for all livin thins.