Energy Flow Through Ecosystems

A fungi absorbs nutrients from dead and decaying organisms. It is ......

• A heterotroph

• An autotroph

• A chemotroph

• none of these

All energy on Earth comes from

• food.

• the sun.

• chemicals.

• non-living things.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

An autotroph can also be called a

• animal.

• consumer.

• heterotroph.

• producer.

Which of the following heterotrophs are help keep the ecosystem alive by recycling nutrients between dead and living organisms?

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

• Decomposers/ Detritvores

• Herbivores

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A difference between photosynthesis and chemosynthesis

• Photosynthesis doesn't use light and chemosynthesis does

• Photosynthesis makes sugar and chemosynthesis doesn't

• Photosynthesis uses light and chemosynthesis doesn't

• Photosynthesis doesn't make sugar and chemosynthesis does

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What process occurs when light energy is captured by chlorophyll in autotrophs and converted into sugar?

• Photosynthesis

• Cellular Respiration

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Animal that gets its energy and nutrition from eating meat.

• Detritivore

• Ominvore

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

which number on the diagram below sows the level of secondary consumers?

• 3

• 2

• 1

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

in an energy pyramid, which way does the energy transfer?

• from top of the pyramid to the bottom

• from the bottom of the pyramid to the top

• all of these

• none of these

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which organism do the owl and the weasel compete for in the food web?

• Hawk
• Spider
• Grasshopper
• Shrew