Energy in Ecosystem

What energy role describes an organism that makes its own food, usually by using energy from the sun?

• consumer
• producer
• carnivore
• decomposer

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Hetetrotroph is another word (a synonym) for

• scavenger
• producer
• autotroph
• consumer

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These organisms break down decaying biotic wastes and then return the materials to the ecosystem.

• decomposers
• scavengers
• carnivores
• producers

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In the food web above, what eats the rabbit?

• Fox

• Hawk

• Vole

• Grass

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Which organism in this food web is an herbivore?

• Frog
• Grasshopper
• Mouse
• Snake

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Using the food web what would happen if the eagle became extinct?

• The frog population would decrease.

• The frog population would increase.

• The butterfly population would increase.

• The snake population would decrease.

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A __________________ is a type of animal that hunts other animals to eat. 

• prey
• herbivore
• predator
• producer

A consumer gets energy by doing what?

• Making it themselves.
• Breaking down biotic wastes and dead organisms and returning raw materials to the ecosystem.
• Soaking it up from the ground.
• Feeding on other organisms.

A food chain is?

• Overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
• The amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
• A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
• biotic and abiotic factors in an area.

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Name the tertiary consumer?

• snake
• fungi
• hawk
• mouse

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