Quiz about Optional! Ecology Review

Question 1

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

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sun

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producers

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consumer

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decomposers

Question 2

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

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Consumer

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Autotroph

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Producer

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Mutualist

Question 3

What does a food web represent?

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All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.

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The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.

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A single pathway or energy flow between organisms.

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How carnivores get their food.

Question 4

The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

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Primary Consumer

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Decomposer

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Producer

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Secondary Consumer

Question 5

Where an organism lives

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habitat

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niche

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heterotrogh

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biosphere

Question 6

The living part of an ecosystem

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Biotic

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Abiotic

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Mother Earth

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Flowers

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The non-living part of an ecosystem

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Abiotic

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Ocean

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Lava Flow

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Birds

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symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit

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Mutualism

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competition

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nitrogen fixation

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energy pyramid

Question 9

When every organism of a species has died.

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Extinction

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Evolution

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Natural Selection

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Artificial Selection

Question 10

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

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Natural Selection

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Evolution

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Extinction

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Artifical Selection

Question 11

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

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Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

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Because they come from dominant alleles.

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Because they come from recessive alleles.

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Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

Question 12

Almost all adaptations started off as?

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mutation

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selective breeding

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physiological

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structural

Question 13

Organisms that are better adapted to the environment survive to pass traits to their offspring

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Natural Selection

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Homeostasis

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Selective Breeding

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Extinction

Question 14

Who causes the most damage to coral reefs?

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Humans

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Whales

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Fish

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Boats

Question 15

a man made, underwater structure that promotes the growth of reef dwelling aquatic organisms.

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Artificial reefs

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Corral reefs

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organisms

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food

Question 16

taking more fish out of an ecosystem than can be replaced by the reproductive rates of the remaining populations.

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over fishing

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extint

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fishing

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over population

Question 17

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

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abiotic

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alive

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biotic

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living

Question 18

Is a deer an abiotic or biotic factor?

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biotic

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abiotic

Question 19

Is a fern an abiotic or biotic factor?

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biotic

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abiotic

Question 20

Is a weather an abiotic or biotic factor?

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abiotic

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biotic

Question 21

Is sunlight an abiotic or biotic factor?

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abiotic

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biotic

Question 22

A living or once-living organisms in an ecosystem is a

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biotic factor

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population

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abiotic factor

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community

Question 23

A certain plant needs moisture, carbon dioxide, oxygen, light, and minerals to survive. This scenario shows that this particular living organism depends on .

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Abiotic Factors

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Biotic and Abiotc Factors

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Biotic Factors

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None of the Above

Question 24

The study of relationships between biotic and abiotic factors interacting in the same area.

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Ecology

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Biology

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Zoology

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Botany

Question 25

Too many cows in a grassland can reduce the number of

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herbivores

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Cows

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Soil

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Organisms compete for

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resources

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environment

Question 27

All food chains_____________________

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begin with a producer

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have more consumers than producers

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produce and use same amount of energy

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are unhealthy

Question 28

How do consumers get their energy?

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eating other organisms

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laying in the sun

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providing food for other organisms

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surviving in an ecosystem

Question 29

All the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem

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population

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community

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niche

Question 30

What term describes all of the organisms in a particular habitat interacting with each other?

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Community

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Population

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Ecosystem

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Niche

Question 31

What do we call the community interacting with their environment?

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Ecosystem

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Biodiversity

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Habitat

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Food web

Question 32

The total variety of all living things on earth is known as?

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biodiversity

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an ecosystem

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a population

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competition

Question 33

Which of the following statements about a woodland describes a community?

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All the plants and animals

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All the oak trees

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All the plants

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All the oak trees and blackbirds

Question 34

A tick and a dog have this type of relationship.

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parasitism

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mutualism

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commensalism

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neutralism

Question 35

A tapeworm and a cat have this type of relationship.

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parasitism

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mutualism

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commensalism

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competition

Question 36

Cattle egrets are birds that forage in fields among cattle. The egrets get easy access to food and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.

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commensalism

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mutualism

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competition

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parasitism

Question 37

Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that feed on parasites found on an impala. The impala gets rid of parasites and the red-billed oxpeckers get a yummy dinner. This is an example of _______.

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mutualism

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commensalism

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neutralism

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competition

Question 38

A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed.

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Parasitsm

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Mutualism

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Competition

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Commensalism

Question 39

A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unharmed.

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Commensalism

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Mutualism

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Competition

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Parasitsm

Question 40

A relationship between two organisms in which both organisms benefit.

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Mutualism

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Competition

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Parasitsm

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Commensalism

Question 41

Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. This neither harms nor benefits the whales.

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Commensalism

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Mutualsim

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Parasitism

Question 42

Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from the spruce tree to the tree's detriment (harm).

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Parasitism

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Mutualsim

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Commensalism

Question 43

Yucca flowers are pollinated by yucca moths. The moths lay their eggs  in the flowers where  the larvae hatch and eat some of the developing seeds. Both species benefit.

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Mutualism

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Parasitism

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Commensalism

Question 44

Silverfish live and hunt with army ants. They share the prey.  They neither help nor harm the ants.

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Commensalism

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Mutualism

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Parasitism

Question 45

A wrasse fish feeds on the parasites found on the black sea bass's body. Both species benefit.

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Mutualism

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Parasitism

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Commensalism

Question 46

An energy pyramid represents what?

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The amount of energy available to the next 'feeder' in a food web.

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How much sunlight is available for the ecosystem to use.

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How much energy a particular organism needs.

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How much energy is needed to build a pyramid.

Question 47

How much energy is available to be passed on to the next trophic level in an ecosystem?

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10%

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100%

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50%

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75%

Question 48

Why might an organism have more than one arrow coming from them in a food web?

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More than one organism may eat them.

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They may eat more than one other organism.

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This organism gets its energy from multiple sources.

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They have no resources available to them.

Question 49

What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web pictured?

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The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.

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The insects in the habitat would increase.

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The willow tree population would decrease.

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Foxes would dies due to no food source.

Question 50

The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

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Primary Consumer

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Decomposer

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Producer

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Secondary Consumer

Question 51

The fox in this food web would be considered a:

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Tertiary Consumer

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Producer

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Secondary Consumer

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Primary Consumer

Question 52

The mouse in this food web would be considered a:

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Secondary Consumer

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Primary Consumer

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Producer

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Tertiary Consumer

Question 53

The image provided is an example of a:

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Producer

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Heterotroph

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Consumer

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Decomposer

Question 54

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

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Herbivore

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Autotroph

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Carnivore

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Decomposer

Question 55

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

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Carnivore

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Herbivore

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Producer

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Autotroph

Question 56

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

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Consumer

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Producer

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Autotroph

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Insect

Question 57

Which of the following is a herbivore?

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cricket

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frog

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hawk

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shrew

Question 58

Where do all life forms get their energy?

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The Sun

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Earth's Core

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Water

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Plants

Question 59

The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

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They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms.

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They point to the organism that is being eaten.

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It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.

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They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

Question 60

What is this called?

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Food Chain

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Food Web

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Abiotic Factors

Question 61

What is this called?

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Food Web

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Food Chain

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Abiotic Factors

Question 62

What is the name for the organism that eats the primary consumer?

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secondary consumer

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tertiary consumer

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producer

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decomposer

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