G7 Ecology

G7 Ecology

Check your understanding

Vocabulary

• biotic / abiotic

• species

• population

• community +habitat

• ecosystem

• biome

Multiple Choice

A producer?

• Eats other plants and animals
• Makes its own food
• Eats dead plants or animals
• Makes toys for kids

Multiple Choice

The physical place where an organism lives is known as ________________.

• niche

• habitat

• community

• biome

Multiple Choice

There are living or once living organisms in an ecosystem.

• Biology

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Ecology

Multiple Choice

This is a group of very similar organisms that can mate and reproduce offspring of the same type.

• Community

• Population

• Species

• Niche

Multiple Choice

It is the non-living parts of the environment such as rocks, air, temperature, sunlight, and water.

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Habitat

• Community

Multiple Choice

It is group of organisms of the same species living in the same area.

• Community

• Population

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

Multiple Choice

It is the interaction among living and non-living things.

• Ecosystem

• Biotic

• Community

• Species

Multiple Choice

What is the name for areas with the same kind of biotic and abiotic factors spread over a large area. 

• Community
• Ecosystem
• Biosphere
• Biome

Open Ended

What is the difference between biomes and ecosystem?

Vocabulary

• carnivore

• scavenger: e.g. vultures, hyena, many insects

• herbivore

• omnivore

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

Multiple Choice

Vultures use their excellent sense of smell to find newly dead organisms to eat. This energy role is 

• scavenger
• decomposer
• carnivore
• herbivore

Multiple Choice

Wild pigs eat leaves, plant roots, flowers, lizards, and snakes. This energy role is

• producer
• omnivore
• herbivore
• scavenger

Multiple Choice

These organisms break down decaying biotic wastes and then return the materials to the ecosystem.

• decomposers
• scavengers
• carnivores
• producers

Multiple Choice

Herbivores eat

• meat only
• plants only
• both meat and plants
• freshly dead organisms

Multiple Choice

Consumers that eat only meat are called

• decomposers
• herbivores
• carnivores
• omnivores

Multiple Choice

What energy role describes an organism that cannot make its own food and therefore gets energy by eating other organisms?

• consumer
• producer
• autotroph
• sunlight

Multiple Choice

What energy role describes an organism that makes its own food, usually by using energy from the sun?

• consumer
• producer
• carnivore
• decomposer

Food chain/web

the role of each organism

the meaning of arrow

the loss of energy flow

Multiple Choice

What percentage of energy is passed on to each tropic level?

• 10%
• 50%
• 90%
• 100%

Multiple Choice

A frog eats a fly. The frog and fly are demonstrating ________.

• mutualism
• competition
• predator/prey
• parasitism

Multiple Choice

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________

• ecosystem
• food web
• environment

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a consumer

• grass
• dog
• shark
• fish

Multiple Choice

Energy increases as you move up the food pyramid (from bottom to top).

• True 
• False

Multiple Choice

What does every food chain start with?

• producers
• sun
• consumer
• decomposers

Multiple Choice

The direction of the flow of energy in a food web is represented by ___.

• Light bulbs
• Dotted Lines
• Arrows
• Bubbles

Multiple Choice

Who is the producer in this food chain? 

• Grass
• Grasshopper
• Mouse
• Ow

Multiple Choice

Who does the owl get energy from? 

• Grass
• Grasshopper
• Mouse
• Ow

Energy pyramid

Energy pyramid of numbers

Energy pyramid of biomass

Multiple Choice

Name the correct trophic level for level 1.

• Tertiary

• Consumer

• Producer

• Quatemary

Multiple Choice

Name the correct trophic level for level 4.

• Tertiary

• Consumer

• Producer

• Quatemary

Multiple Choice

Name the correct trophic level for level 3.

• Consumer

• Secondary

• Producer

• Decomposer

Multiple Choice

Name the trophic level in Level 2.

• Primary

• Tertiary

• Consumer

• Secondary

Multiple Choice

What would happen to the bird if the green fish died out?

• the bird population would grow

• the bird population would die out

• the smaller fish will die out

Multiple Choice

What is the bottom layer of the an energy pyramid?

• producer

• tertiary consumer

• Secondary consumer

• primary consumer

Multiple Choice

Position that an organism occupies based on what it eats

• Producer

• Trophic level

• Heterotroph

• Consumer

Protect the ecosystem