Unit 7 Ecology Review

An organism that uses an outside source of energy like the sun to create energy-rich food molecules.

• Consumer
• Producer
• Decomposer
• Parasite 

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An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms.

• Consumer
• Producer
• Decomposer
• Detriov

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Organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms.

• Decomposers
• Producers
• Consumers

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Animals that eat primary producers (also known as herbivores)

• Producers
• Primary Consumers
• Secondary Consumers
• Tertiary Consumers

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Which is the correct order of tropic levels? 

• Primary Consumer, Producer, Secondary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer
• Tertiary Consumer, Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Producer 
• Producer, Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer
• Quaternary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Producer  

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Which of the following is a herbivore?

• cricket
• frog
• hawk
• shrew

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How many herbivores are in this web?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

The efficiency of energy transfer from a lower trophic level to the next highest level is roughly

• 1%
• 10%
• 100%
• 1000%

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In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in each level gets lost as heat or used by the organism for survival?

• 80%
• 90%
• 10%
• 20%

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A group of a particular species living and interacting in the same area

• Community
• Population
• Organisms
• Biosphere