Consumers Quiz - CBSE Class 5 EVS

Free practice quiz: Consumers (CBSE Class 5 EVS). 19 multiple-choice questions with answers and explanations. Play online, no sign-up needed.

This CBSE Class 5 EVS practice quiz has 19 multiple-choice questions on Consumers, and 19 of them come with an explanation. Try the 5 sample questions below (tap an option to check yourself), then play the full quiz online. No sign-up needed.

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1. What is a consumer in a food chain?

   1. An organism that makes its own food
   2. An organism that eats producers
   3. An organism that decomposes dead matter
   4. An organism that provides shelter
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   Answer: B. An organism that eats producers

   In a food chain, consumers are organisms that cannot produce their own food and rely on eating producers (plants) or other consumers for energy.

2. Which of the following is a characteristic of consumers?

   1. They produce food
   2. They capture sunlight
   3. They require food from other organisms
   4. They create oxygen
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   Answer: C. They require food from other organisms

   Consumers do not produce their own food and must obtain energy by consuming other living organisms.

3. How do omnivores fit into the food chain?

   1. They only eat plants
   2. They only eat animals
   3. They eat both plants and animals
   4. They do not eat organic matter
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   Answer: C. They eat both plants and animals

   Omnivores can consume both plants and animals, allowing them to occupy multiple levels of the food chain.

4. What could be the effect of removing a top predator from an ecosystem?

   1. Increase in primary consumer population
   2. Decrease in nutrients
   3. Increase in producer population
   4. No change
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   Answer: A. Increase in primary consumer population

   Removing a top predator can lead to overpopulation of primary consumers, as there would be fewer natural checks on their population.

5. What would be the most likely result of excessive hunting of a primary consumer?

   1. Increased biodiversity
   2. Species extinction
   3. More producers
   4. There would be no effect
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   Answer: B. Species extinction

   If primary consumers are excessively hunted, it can lead to their extinction, affecting the entire food web and ecosystem stability.

More questions in this quiz

Answers and explanations are in the full quiz.

1. Which of the following is an example of a consumer?
2. How do secondary consumers fit into the food chain?
3. What is an apex predator?
4. What role do decomposers play in a food chain?
5. Which of the following groups would not be considered a primary consumer?
6. What would happen if all consumers died in an ecosystem?
7. What is one way consumers impact the population of producers?
8. Which consumer is known to help control the population of other species?
9. In what way are consumers dependent on producers?
10. What are herbivores also known as?
11. Which type of consumer would have the most impact on a food chain?
12. How does the extinction of one consumer affect multiple food chains?
13. What term describes the relationship between consumers and producers?
14. Which factor would most negatively affect the consumer population in an ecosystem?

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