Environmental Science Ecology

What do we call a consumer that kills and eats animals? Choose all that are correct.

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Heterotroph

• Chemoautotroph

• Autotroph

Answer explanation

Sometimes people hear carnivore and they think of things that eat meat like you would get from a cow or chicken. Remember, carnivores eat animals, so something that eats a butterfly is a carnivore, even though butterflies aren't real meaty.

A pond has three kinds of fish in it, four types of frogs, two species of turtles, and a whole bunch of different kinds of insects. The organisms in the pond make up a

• Community

• Population

• Individuals

• Environment

Aphids are small insects that suck juices out of plants. What kind of consumer is an aphid?

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Scavenger

• Detritivore

• Omnivore

Green lacewings eat aphids. What kind of consumers are they?

• Carnivores

• Herbivore

• Scavenger

• Omnivore

• Detritivore

Answer explanation

What is the original source of energy for almost all ecosystems?

• the sun

• ATP

• Glucose

• volatile chemicals

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Choose all the abiotic factors from this picture.

• water

• rain

• sunlight

• rocks

• tree bark

Answer explanation

There are four of them that should be chosen.

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What role do fungi (mushrooms) play in an ecosystem?

• They are decomposers.

• They are primary producers.

• They are detritivores.

• They are scavengers.

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Dr. Jane Goodall spent years making observations about a group of chimpanzees. At which ecological level was she working?

• Community

• Population

• Individual

• Ecosystem

Ecology is the study of

• the interactions between organisms and between organisms and their environment.

• how life on Earth works.

• the effects of global warming will have on the planet and its organisms.

• the ways populations and communities behave with each other.

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If I watch a spider spinning a web, what level of ecological study is that?

• Individual

• Singleton

• Population

• Organism