Fish Biology and Ecology

Which is NOT an abiotic factor:

• soil

• pH

• bacteria;

• water temperature

What might happen if you remove a primary consumer from the ecosystem?

• There would be more food for secondary consumers.
• The number of primary consumers would increase.
• The number of plants would increase.
• The number of secondary consumers would increase.

A consumer that hunts is called:

• a producer.
• an omnivore.
• a predator.
• a herbivore.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What might occur when a carnivore is removed from the food web?

• A)  Nothing.  Organisms cannot impact things below them on the energy pyramid.
• B)  Primary consumers will overpopulate.
• C)  Plants will be over browsed by herbivores.
• D)  both B and C might occur.

Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Non-living factor that affects an ecosystem

• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• food chain 
• biome

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Another word for a living thing is a:

• animal
• organism
• plant
• community

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What level consumer is the deer?

• 1^st order consumer

• 2^nd order consumer

• 1^st & 2nd order consumer

• Producer

An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms is a ______________.

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• prey

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________.

• ecosystem
• food web
• environment
• population

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3