Ecology Basics

Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all  _____  parts of the environment

• alive
• biotic 
• abiotic
• living

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What is the definition of Biotic factors?

• Dead things
• plants
• Living things or organisms
• soil

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A collection of organisms that belong to different populations but all live in the same area and interact with one another.

• Population
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Ecosphere

A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.

• Population
• Community
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

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kills, hunts, stalks and eats its prey

• carnivore

• herbivore

• scavenger

• decomposer

Eats dead or or decaying animal carcasses

• carnivore

• scavenger

• herbivore

• omnivore

If the first trophic level has 100% energy, what percent of energy will the 3rd trophic level have according to the 10% rule.

• 100%

• 10%

• 1%

• .1%

The branch of biology dealing with interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment is called

• ecology

• modeling

• recycling

• economy

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shows all feeding relationships in an ecosystem, multiple food chains

• food web

• food chain

• food cycles

• herbivore

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Another name for producer that means "self eater"

• autotroph

• consumer

• heterotroph

• preditor

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