Ecology

Which best describes what a food chain shows you?

• Energy flow through an ecosystem
• Food flowing through an ecosystem
• Consumers going into other consumers
• Who eats who

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What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Scavengers

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Which is the correct food chain order?

• Plant-->1st Consumer--> 2nd Consumer 
• Plant <-- 1st Consumer <-- 2nd Consumer
• 2nd consumer     --> 1st consumer  --> Plant
• 1st Consumer      --> 2nd consumer --> Plant

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Which of these is true about this food web?

• The Owl gets its energy from the producer.
• The Lion gets its energy only from a wild cat.
• The Kite gets its energy from the goat.
• The Mouse is most likely to die, several ways.

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What is this called?

• Food Web
• Food Chain
• Abiotic Factors

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Which of the following is a herbivore?

• cricket
• frog
• hawk
• shrew

An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• autotroph

A secondary consumer 

• eats primary consumers
• eats producers
• eats plants

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Which of the following illustrates the correct ordering of trophic levels?

• decomposers-carnivores-autotrophs-herbivores
• herbivores-autotrophs-carnivores-decomposers
• producers-herbivores-carnivores-decomposers
• carnivores-producers-omnivores

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Another name for a consumer is a

• heterotroph
• autotroph
• producer
• plant