Applied Ecology Review

The source of all energy for a food web is...

• The Earth

• The Sun

• Heat

• Sugar

This picture shows

• a community

• a population

• a biome

• a biosphere

The snail in this picture is a

• primary consumer

• producer

• secondary consumer

• autotroph

Primary succession begins with...

• topsoil

• bare rock

The first organisms that start the succession process are...

• newbies

• pioneer species

• climax species

• dominant species

The word that describes all of the living and nonliving aspects of an area is

• biome

• population

• community

• ecosystem

What kind of population growth does this graph show?

• exponential

• logistic

If sunlight was temporarily blocked, which organisms would be first affected?

• producers

• consumers

• carnivores

• meat eaters

Think about the water cycle. What process brings liquid back to the surface of the Earth?

• condenstaion

• transpiration

• sublimation

• precipitation

Which factor below is density dependent?

• food

• floods

• forest fires

• climate change