Ecology S137

What is the original source of almost all energy in most ecosystems?

• carbohydrates
• sunlight
• water
• carbon

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What is the term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a biological community?

• energy path
• food web
• trophic level
• food pyramid

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What is an heterotroph? 

• An organism that can produce its own form of energy (via the Sun) 
• An organism that consumes only plants for energy
• Various organisms that consume other organisms for energy
• An organism that decomposes other organisms 

What are the plants in this picture? 

• Heterotrophs 
• Autotrophs
• Carnivores 
• Herbivores 

Different populations living and interacting with each other in the same area

• Biome
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Niche

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The non-living part of an ecosystem

• Ocean
• Lava Flow
• Birds
• Abiotic

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The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

• Biology
• Lithology
• Ecology
• Farmacology

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which symbiosis is this 

• parasitism 
• mutualism
• commensalism
• nonalism 

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symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit

• competition
• Mutualism
• nitrogen fixation
• energy pyramid

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The amount of energy that usually transfers from one trophic level to the next...

• 10%
• 20%
• 80%
• 50%

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