Ecology Quiz

What is the definition for ecology?

• The study of living things

• The study of organisms in their environment

• The study of stars

• The study of the ocean

What is a heterotroph?

• organisms that eat other things to gain energy

• organisms that make their own food

• organisms that eat only plants

• organisms that eat only animals

What is an autotroph?

• organism that eats things to gain energy

• organism that makes its own food

• organism that eats blood

• organism that eats only meat

Which word means the same thing as autotroph?

• heterotroph

• consumer

• producer

• herbivore

Which word means the same as heterotroph?

• carnivore

• herbivore

• producer

• consumer

What is a food chain?

• Follows the chain of food that one animal eats back to the producer

• Contains many food chains

What is a food web?

• Follows the chain of food that one animal eats back to the producer

• Contains many food chains

What is a carnivore?

• animals that eat blood

• animals that eat meat

• animals that eat meat and plants

• animals that eat plants

What is an herbivore?

• animals that eat meat

• animals that eat plants

• animals that eat meat and plants

What is an omnivore?

• animal that eats plants

• animal that eats plants and animals

• animal that eats meat

• animal that eats blood