biodiversity and food webs

Which is NOT an abiotic factor:

• soil
• air
• bacteria;
• water

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.

How do producers obtain energy?

• They conduct photosynthesis.
• They consume plants.
• They consume primary consumers.
• They consume secondary consumers.

A consumer that hunts is called:

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

Which represents the largest group in a food web?

• carnivores
• omnivores
• herbivores
• producers

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

• carrying capacity
• resource
• succession
• denitrification 

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

• carrying capacity
• primary succession 
• denitrification
• mutualism

A large area that has a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities 

• ecosystem
• habitat
• niche
• biome

Non-living factor that affects an ecosystem

• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• food chain 
• biome

This invasive plant came from Asia and was believed to be a pretty decoration.  Unfortunately, it covers native plants and blocks sunlight from reaching them.

• Kudzu Vine
• Feral Swine
• Sea Lamprepy
• Zebra Mussels