Ecology - Cycling of Energy

What type of ecosystem is this?

• Terrestrial

• Aquatic

An ecosystem includes

• All living factors

• All nonliving factors

• All nonliving and living factors

• All biomass anywhere

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Trophic Levels show the

• what grade each organism has achieved in the ecosystem

• position that an organism occupies in a food chain - what it eats, and what eats it

• part of the triangle the organism likes the most

• elevation the organism likes to live in

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The trophic pyramid is a triangular shape because

• 90% of energy is lost to heat, movement, and survival, and only 10% of energy goes to the next level

• People see the top of the pyramid so it is important to know the keystone species.

• 10% of energy is lost to heat, movement, and survival, and only 90% of energy goes to the next level

• the top of the pyramid is the pinnacle organism of an ecosystem

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Producers obtain their energy by

• the process of hunting for prey

• the process of eating plants

• the process of photosynthesis to make their own food from sunlight

• the process of breaking down once living things

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Omnivores make their energy by

• eating plants

• eating animals

• eating plants and animals

• eating decomposers

Autotroph means

• the organism can make its own food from photosynthesis

• the organsim gets its energy from eating other organisms

• the organism gets energy from breaking down once living things

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Heterotroph means

• the organisms get their energy from eating other organisms

• the organisms make their own food from photosynthesis

• the organims get energy from breaking down once living things

Carnivores get their energy by

• eating other animals

• eating plants

• eating both plants and animals

• breaking down once living organisms

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The carnivore level in this diagram are also known as

• Producers

• Primary consumers

• Secondary consumers

• Tertiary consumers

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