2022-2023 - Ecology EXAM Review

An organism's place in the biotic environment and its role in an ecosystem is

• Niche

• Epitope

• Habitat

• Habit

A population is...

• A group of one species in one area

• Multiple species that live in one area

• All of the living and nonliving things in an area

• None of these

All the green plants that provide the energy for consumers.

• consumers

• producers

• decomposers

• herbivores

A diagram that shows the transfer of energy from one organism to another (who is eaten by what).

• ecosystem

• environment

• food chain

• food web

A diagram that shows the transfer of energy in an ecosystem by using several food chains.

• ecosystem

• food web

• environment

• food chain

All of the living AND non-living things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an __________.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

A group of different species that live together and interact in an environment are called a/an __________.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

When humans burn fossil fuels, most of the carbon quickly enters the                       as carbon dioxide.

• Water
• Atmosphere
• Sun
• Air

What does not produce carbon dioxide?

• Photosynthesis
• Burning Fossil Fuels
• Animal respiration
• Plants decaying

How does the carbon in grass become part of a lion?

• The lion eats the grass
• Carbon from grass doesn't end up in a lion. 
• The carbon ends up in the lion's food chain. 
• The lion breathes in carbon given out by the plant