Ecology Vocabulary

An organism that produces its own food supply from inorganic compounds is called a(an)

• heterotroph
• consumer
• detritivore
• autotroph

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

• Autotroph
• Producer
• Consumer
• Mutualist

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The nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

• Abiotic factors

• Biotic factors

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The organisms that make up a community and the nonliving parts of the environment that they interact with are a(n)

• 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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The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

• Biology
• Lithology
• Ecology
• Farmacology

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The portion of the planet in which living things are found

• ecosystem

• biosphere

• biome

• atmosphere

Organisms that break down decaying material are

• consumers

• producers

• decomposers

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the path of food energy from one living thing to another

• food chain
• food web
• organism
• energy

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a consumer that eats only plants

• herbivore
• carnivore
• omnivore
• predator