Populations and Ecosystems Vocab

An organism that gets food by eating other organisms? 

• producer 
• consumer
• herbivore 
• decomposer 

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What are producers? 

• organisms that store extra food 
• organisms that make their own food
• breaks down dead organisms 
• decomposes nutrients 

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What is an organism that breaks down dead organisms and wastes to live and grown? 

• herbivore
• consumer
• producer 
• decomposer

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Which animals are examples of consumers? 

• hawks and plants 
• lion and hawks
• plankton
• algae and fish 

Most ecosystems have many food chains. What are food chains that overlap in an ecosystem and show feeding relationships? 

• unhealthy
• energy pyramid 
• food web
• matter

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What is an ecosystem? 

• producing food from sunlight
• animals that live in certain areas
• living and nonliving things that interact in an area
• a person who studies an environment

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Consumers that eat both plants and animals are?

• herbivores
• carnivores
• omnivores
• decomposer

All the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem is a?

• population
• community
• niche

The different populations that interact with each other in the same area form?

• population
• community
• niche

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Which is NOT an abiotic factor:

• soil
• air
• bacteria;
• water

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