Life Science Review

This organism is microscopic and
lives in soil. It feeds off of dead
and dying organisms, creating
carbon and nitrogen, which is
sent back into the soil to be used
over. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Fungi. Is it a...

• Producer
• Consumer
• Decomposer

All the living parts of an ecosystem

• biotic
• abiotic
• cell
• atom

All members of one kind of organism that live in the same area

• population
• microorganism
• communit
• organism

What level consumer could you consider the deer?  

• Primary
• Secondary
• Tertiary
• Quarternary

Which of the following is a herbivore?

• cricket
• frog
• hawk
• shrew

What might occur when a carnivore is removed from the food web?

• A)  Nothing.  Organisms cannot impact things below them on the energy pyramid.
• B)  Primary consumers will overpopulate.
• C)  Plants will be over browsed by herbivores.
• D)  both B and C might occur.

Which represents the largest group in a food web?

• carnivores
• omnivores
• herbivores
• producers

What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

Where does the Secondary Consumer get its energy?  

• Tertiary Consumers
• Primary Consumers
• Producers
• Secondary Consumers