Ecology Do Now

In a natural community, all the living things that directly or indirectly affect the environment are known as

• pioneer organisms

• secondary consumers

• climactic limitations

• biotic factors

Which group can best be described as a population?

• all the honeybees in an orchard

• all the plants and animals in a forest

• the life in the Earth's atmosphere

• the living and nonliving factors in a meadow

What does every food chain start with? (Even if it's not drawn or written there!)

• producers
• sun
• consumer
• decomposers

Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

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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. 

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What are the Abiotic factors in this image? 

• water, sunlight, dirt, air
• birds and plants
• birds, water, dirt
• plants, water

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

• Biology
• Lithology
• Ecology
• Farmacology

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An organism that produces its own food supply from inorganic compounds is called a(an)

• heterotroph
• consumer
• detritivore
• autotroph

Which of the following describes a niche?

• where an organism lives and gets what it needs to survive
• all of the living things in the environment
• An organisms role or job in the ecosystem
• all of the non-living things in the environment

In the energy pyramid here, which organisms have the most energy available?

• Producers
• Carnivores
• Herbivores
• Top Predator

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