Organisms and Environments

Which is NOT an abiotic factor:

• soil
• air
• bacteria;
• water

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What might happen if you remove a primary consumer from the ecosystem?

• There would be more food for secondary consumers.
• The number of primary consumers would increase.
• The number of plants would increase.
• The number of secondary consumers would increase.

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A consumer that hunts is called:

• a producer.
• an omnivore.
• a predator.
• a herbivore.

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Which represents the largest group in a food web?

• carnivores
• omnivores
• herbivores
• producers

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anything that an organism needs to live, ex. food, water, space

• carrying capacity
• resource
• succession
• denitrification 

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largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support  

• carrying capacity
• primary succession 
• denitrification
• mutualism

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Network of all food in an ecosystem

• ecology
• food web
• decomposer
• food chain

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Non-living factor that affects an ecosystem

• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• food chain 
• biome

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Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

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Living factors or organisms that affect an ecosystem

• abiotic factors
• species
• trophic level
• biotic factors

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