ecology

All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

The living part of an ecosystem

• Biotic
• Abiotic
• Mother Earth
• Flowers

The non-living part of an ecosystem

• Ocean
• Lava Flow
• Birds
• Abiotic

The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

• Biology
• Lithology
• Ecology
• Farmacology

What does a producer do ?

• make its own food
• make others food
• eat consumers
• break down dead organisms

Where do consumers get their food from ?

• the sun
• dirt
• berries
• other organisms

What do carnivores eat ?

• producers 
• decomposers
• consumers

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________.

• ecosystem
• food web
• environment

Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

If an insecticide reduced the population of grasshoppers, what would happen to the population of shrew?

• increase
• decrease
• remain the same