Ecology Vocab Test

What does biotic mean?

• Living
• Non living
• Man made

The study of how living things interact in an environment is called

• Ecosystem
• Biology
• Ecology

What does abiotic mean?

• Living
• Non-living
• Man made

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

• Autotroph
• Producer
• Consumer
• Mutualist

Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

relationship in which two species live closely together

• resource
• mutualism
• succession
• symbiosis

The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer
• Producer
• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer

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

• 10%
• 20%
• 80%
• 50%

 plants that convert energy from the sun

• decomposer
• primary consumer
• secondary consumer
• producer