Ecology

An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

• Autotroph
• Producer
• Consumer
• Mutualist

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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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Which one is not a consumer?

• tomato plant

• bear

• shark

• vulture

The image provided is an example of a(n):

• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Producer
• Autotroph

The living portions of the ecosystem.

• Biotic factors
• Abiotic factors

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As you move upward, from level to level, in an energy pyramid, energy _____.

• increases
• decreases
• stays the same
• increases exponentially

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What are the Abiotic factors in this image? 

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

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An individual belonging to a specific species

• Biotic
• Community
• Organism
• Reptile

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An area where an organism finds food, shelter and water in a specific arrangement

• niche
• biosphere
• biome
• habitat

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