Ecology Review

True or False:  It is possible for a carnivore to be a producer.

• False

• True

Organisms that can capture energy from inorganic, nonliving sources.

• Producers

• Consumers

• Detritivores

• Carnivores

A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.

• Population

• Community

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

A place where an organism lives.

• Terrain

• Habitat

• Community

• Population

A collection of organisms that belong to different populations but all live in the same area and interact with one another.

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Ecosphere

Water temperature would be an example of ...

• A biotic factor

• An abiotic factor

An illustration that uses arrows to show the many possible directions in which matter and energy can pass through the organisms in an ecosystem.

• Food chain

• Food web

• Energy Pyramid

• Succession Map

The amount of energy that usually transfers from one trophic level to the next...

• 10%

• 20%

• 80%

• 50%

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

• Producer

• Autotroph

• Consumer

• Insect

What does a food web represent?

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

• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.

• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 

• How carnivores get their food.