Ecology

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

• producers

• sun

• consumer

• decomposers

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. 

relationship in which two species live closely together

• resource

• mutualism

• succession

• symbiosis

The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Secondary Consumer

• Primary Consumer

In this Food Web Pyramid Which type of consumer gets only 10% of the energy stored in plants?

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Secondary Consumer

What is the term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a biological community?

• energy path

• food web

• trophic level

• food pyramid

The nonliving aspects of an ecosystem.

• Abiotic factors

• Biotic factors

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

• Population

• Community

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

As you move upward, from level to level, in an energy pyramid, energy _____.

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

• increases exponentially

What are the Abiotic factors in this image? 

• water, sunlight, dirt, air

• birds and plants

• birds, water, dirt

• plants, water