Ecosystems

Ecosystems

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What is an apex predator?

• an organism that consumes plants

• An organism that absorbs decaying matter

• The top organism of it's food web

• A primary comsumer

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What is an invasive species?

• an herbivore

• a producer

• an organism not native to an ecosystem that causes harm

• an organism that is primarily nocturnal

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What is the first thing found in any food chain?

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what is an animals habitat?

• the type of food it likes

• the home it lives in

• other organisms in it's community

• it's family

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True or False: An apple tree is an example of a producer.

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An animals community is__________________

• all the animals of the same species in its ecosystem

• another name for its ecosystem

• all the other living things in its ecosystem

• the house next door

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This picture is an example of what? __________________

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All of the following are nonliving parts of an ecosystem EXCEPT

• plants

• sunlight

• soil

• water

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True or False : The only things plants do in an ecosystem is provide food.

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What makes an ecosystem healthy?

• lots of populations

• lots of apex predators

• balance

• rocks

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What breaks down dead organisms (into nutrients)?

• producer

• secondary consumer

• frogs

• decomposer

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Animals that eat only plants are called

• carnivores

• herbivores

• omnivores

• producers

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Which of these will always be at the bottom (base) energy pyramid (end of the food chain)?

• consumers

• carnivores

• producers

• decomposers

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What may an organism do if there is a big change to its ecosystem?

• move

• die

• survive

• all of these

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Carnivores are animals that

• eat only plants

• produce their own food

• eat other animals

• consume plants and animals

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The study of ecosystems is called

• economics

• zoology

• biology

• ecology

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Energy passes from one organism to another in a ____________

• food chain

• consumer

• habitat

• region

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Humans and insects are both

• consumers

• producers

• decomposers

• species

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Organisms that use the energy from the sun to create food are called

• consumers

• microorganisms

• decomposers

• producers