Ecology Week 1

The community and the nonliving parts of the environment are known as ______________,

• the community

• an organism

• the population

• the ecosystem

Different populations living and interacting with each other in the same area are a ____.

• biome

• ecosystem

• community

• biosphere

What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms

• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food

• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• an organism that breaks down organic matter

Algae is an example of a ______.

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• scavenger

An animal that gets energy from eating both plants and animals is _______.

• a herbivore

• a carnivore

• an omnivore

• an autotroph

The frog provides energy for the _______?

• cricket

• grasshopper

• hawk

• snake

If the grass has 50,000 kcal of energy, how much energy will the mouse get?

• 5,000 kcal

• 500 kcal

• 50 kcal

• 5 kcal

The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Secondary Consumer

• Primary Consumer

The nonliving aspects of an ecosystem are _____.

• abiotic factors

• biotic factors

The diagram represents a pyramid of energy in an ecosystem.  Which level would most likely contain members of the plant kingdom?

• A
• B
• C
• D

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