Ecology/Biodiversity/Evolution/Climate Change

What does biodiversity mean?

• Only one species in an area.

• The different amount of species in an area

• All abiotic life

• Nitrogen fixation

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A diagram that shows the transfer of energy from one organism to another (who is eaten by what).

• ecosystem

• environment

• food chain

• food web

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A diagram that shows the transfer of energy in an ecosystem by using several food chains.

• ecosystem

• food web

• environment

• food chain

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The place where an organism lives is its __________.

• habitat
• ecosystem
• organism
• population

All of the living AND non-living things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an __________.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

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ALL energy flow for an ecosystem begins with ...

• plants
• the moon
• the sun
• algae

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Organisms that hunt other organisms for food are called __________.

• predators
• prey
• producers
• heterotrophs

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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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The amount of energy that usually transfers from one trophic level to the next...

• 10%
• 20%
• 80%
• 50%

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A bee receives nectar from a flower and carries the pollen to other flowers:

• predation

• parasitism

• interdependence

• commensalism

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