Wildlife and Natural Resources

Coal, petroleum, natural gas, and uranium are all examples of

• land resources
• nonrenewable resources
• renewable resources
• Mineral resources

The ability to maintain something at a certain rate or level is called

• biodiversity
• conservation
• sustainability
• recreation

Crabs, buzzards, and vultures are examples of

• scavengers
• decomposers
• autotrophs
• producers

What are organisms that produce their own food (like green plants) called

• Consumers
• Heterotrophs
• Producers
• decomposers

Plants, water, solar energy are all examples of what kind of resources?

• renewable
• soil and land
• nonrenewable
• biosphere

Substances washing into water sources is called

• erosion
• runoff
• conservation
• sustainability

Fungi and bacteria are examples of

• scavengers
• autotrophs
• decomposers
• producers

The variety of organisms within an ecosystem is its

• niche
• habitat
• community
• biodiversity

Consumers obtain their energy from

• the sun
• other organisms
• scavengers
• mineral sources

The loss of soil

• niche
• erosion
• depletion
• conservation