Ecology

An individual belonging to a specific species

• Biotic
• Community
• Organism
• Reptile

The living part of an ecosystem

• Biotic
• Abiotic
• Mother Earth
• Flowers

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The non-living part of an ecosystem

• Ocean
• Lava Flow
• Birds
• Abiotic

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Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

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Series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

• foodweb
• consumer
• food chain
• omnivore

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What does fungi do to dead plants and animals?

• Leave them there
• Decompose them
• Wait for other animals to eat them
• Move away

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What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web pictured?

• The insects in the habitat would increase.
• The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.
• The willow tree population would decrease.
• Foxes would dies due to no food source. 

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In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in the producers gets passed to the herbivores?

• 10%
• 20%
• 80%
• 90%

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A carbon "sink" is best described as:

• a reservoir that readily releases carbon to another reservoir
• a carbon reservoir that stores more carbon that it is releasing
• something that causes carbon to leak out to the atmosphere
• a carbon reservoir that is releasing more carbon than it is taking in

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In the food web shown, the snail would be considered...

• primary consumer
• secondary consumer
• tertiary consumer
• producer

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