Environmental Final Exam

________________ are consumers that eat ONLY PLANTS.

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

• Producers

__________________ are consumers that eat ONLY MEAT (other animals)?

• Omnivores

• Carnivores

• Producers

• Herbivores

__________________ are consumers that eat BOTH Plants and Animals for food.

• Omnivores

• Producers

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

The study of how things interact with each other and with their environment is called __________

• Ecology

• Biosphere

• Abiotic

• Biotic

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Grass is eaten by a prairie dog. The prairie dog is eaten by a coyote. This is an example of __________.

• Food chain

• A herbivore

• an abiotic element

• an omnivore

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Vultures and hyenas, which feed on the remains of dead organisms, are considered…

• Scavengers

• Decomposers

• Herbivore

• Carnivores

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What would likely happen if the mice population in the diagram above disappeared from the ecosystem?

• The hawks would increase in population because they would eat more snakes

• The grasshoppers would decrease in population because they would be eaten by the snakes

• The grasshoppers would increase in population because they no longer are being preyed upon

• The grass would increase in population because the grasshoppers would eat more

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What do you call the first plants that inhabit a newly formed island?

• pioneer species

• colonial plants

• protoplants

• primevera

The five levels of organization in the environment, from the first to the fifth level are

• Organism, population, biosphere, ecosystem, community

• Organism, population, biotic elements, abiotic elements, community

• Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere

• Organism, population, biosphere, abiotic elements, ecology

If an eagle eats a mouse that eats some berries, the eagle is a….

• Producer

• First level/primary consumer

• Secondary consumer

• Decomposer

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