Ecology 2

Ecology 2

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 plants that convert energy from the sun

• decomposer
• primary consumer
• secondary consumer
• producer

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 plants that convert energy from the sun

• decomposer
• primary consumer
• secondary consumer
• producer

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As you move upward, from level to level, in an energy pyramid, energy _____.

• increases
• decreases
• stays the same
• increases exponentially

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A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.

• Population
• Community
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

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A graphic illustration that shows each trophic level and the amount of useable energy contained within.

• Food chain
• Food web
• Energy Pyramid
• All of these

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The living portions of the ecosystem.

• Biotic factors
• Abiotic factors

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An illustration that uses arrows to show the MANY possible directions in which matter and energy can pass through the organisms in an ecosystem.

• Food chain
• Food web
• Energy Pyramid
• Succession Map

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The image provided is an example of a(n):

• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Producer
• Autotroph

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What is the term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a biological community?

• energy path
• food web
• trophic level
• food pyramid

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Which one is not a consumer?

• anemone 
• bear
• shark
• vulture

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In this Food Web Pyramid Which type of consumer gets only 10% of the energy stored in plants?

• Herbivore
• Carnivore
• Omnivore
• Secondary Consumer

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Where an organism lives

• habitat
• niche 
• heterotrogh
• biosphere

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relationship in which two species live closely together

• resource
• mutualism
• succession
• symbiosis

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What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

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Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

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What does every food chain start with? (Even if it's not drawn or written there!)

• producers

• sun

• consumer

• decomposers

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What does every food chain start with? (Even if it's not drawn or written there!)

• producers
• sun
• consumer
• decomposers