Environmental Science Q1 & Q2 Review

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What transfers from one organism to another in a food web and food chain?

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Energy

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What is alternative energy?

Back

Generated by natural resources and is renewable.

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What is it called when organisms move into and join a new population?

Back

Immigration

Front

In a food chain, who has the most energy: the rabbit, the snake, the hawk, or the grass?

Back

The grass.

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What term describes the number of organisms in a population that die each year?

Back

Death Rate.

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What is the term for the rate at which new individuals are born in a population?

Back

Birth Rate.

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What is the process called when individuals leave a population?

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Emigration.

Front

What is the primary source of energy for all living organisms?

Back

The Sun.

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What is a food chain?

Back

A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

Front

What is a food web?

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A complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.