Ecology

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

• producers
• sun
• consumer
• decomposers

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 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 image provided is an example of a(n):

• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Producer
• Autotroph

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

• increases
• decreases
• stays the same
• increases exponentially

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A volcano in Hawaii erupts and completely decimates a nearby ecosystem covering everything in liquid hot magma. After the magma cools how would you expect life to come back the the ecosystem?

• grasses -> small trees -> flowers -> shrubs -> large trees

• mosses -> wild flowers -> grasses -> shrubs -> large trees

• grass -> wild flowers -> shrubs -> small trees -> large trees

• lichens/mosses -> grasses -> shrubs -> small trees -> large trees

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