Energy Flow in an Ecosystem

An organism that can make its own food is called?

• Consumer
• Producer
• Decomposer
• Herbivore

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A consumer gets energy by doing what?

• Making it themselves.
• Breaking down biotic wastes and dead organisms and returning raw materials to the ecosystem.
• Soaking it up from the ground.
• Feeding on other organisms.

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A food chain is?

• Overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
• The amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
• A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
• biotic and abiotic factors in an area.

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A carnivore eats only other animals. Which is an example?

• Bison
• Elephant
• Caterpillar
• Coyote

This diagram shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.

• Energy Pyramid
• Food Web
• Ecosystem
• Food Chain

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A food web consists of?

• Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
• A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
• Amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another.
• Many types of insects that are stuck.

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This type of consumer obtains all of its energy by eating only producers.

• Omnivore
• Herbivore
• Scavenger
• Carnivore

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Which of these is always located at the bottom of an energy pyramid?

• Producer
• Second-Level Carnivores
• Herbivores.
• First-Level Consumers.

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A third-level consumer has to be which type?

• Carnviore.
• Decomposer.
• Producer.
• Herbivore.

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Which is NOT an abiotic factor:

• soil
• air
• bacteria;
• water

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