Ecology

An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

• Autotroph
• Producer
• Consumer
• Mutualist

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Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

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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. 

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Where an organism lives

• habitat
• niche 
• heterotrogh
• biosphere

The nonliving aspects of an ecosystem.

• Abiotic factors
• Biotic factors

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The living portions of the ecosystem.

• Biotic factors
• Abiotic factors

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

• Population
• Community
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

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What are the Abiotic factors in this image? 

• water, sunlight, dirt, air
• birds and plants
• birds, water, dirt
• plants, water

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In the woods, there are ducks and mice. They both compete for grasshoppers as the only source of food in that area at that time. The ducks outcompete the mice, and the mice die out in that area. This is an example of:

• Neutralism

• Inter-specific Competition

• Evolution

• Intra-specific Competition

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