Ecology

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

An organism at the second trophic level would be considered a...

• Top carnivore
• Producer
• Herbivore
• Carnivore

The general name for organisms like animals and fungi that get their energy from eating other organisms.

• Producers
• Consumers
• Detritivores
• Carnivores

Organisms that feed on both producers and other consumers.

• Carnivores
• Omnivores
• Herbivores
• Detritivores

Organisms that can capture energy from inorganic, nonliving sources.

• Producers
• Consumers
• Detritivores
• Carnivores

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

• Population
• Community
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

The living portions of the ecosystem.

• Biotic factors
• Abiotic factors

The nonliving aspects of an ecosystem.

• Abiotic factors
• Biotic factors

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

Which of the following would be the definition of a detritivore?

• Animals that eat insects.
• Organisms that feed on rocks, recycling the nutrients back into the ground.
• Organisms that eat only pants
• Things that feed on dead organisms, recycling the nutrients back into the ground.