Ecology

What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms

• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food

• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms is a ______________

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

A chimpanzee eats fruits, nuts, leaves, and small mammals. What kind of organism is a chimpanzee?

• carnivore

• decomposer

• producer

• omnivore

What is a niche?

• the range of tolerance an organism has

• the location where an organism lives

• the first trophic level of a food chain

• the role an organism plays in its environment

Which of the following refers to a community of living organisms and the way they interact with nonliving parts of their environment?

• trophic

• biome

• habitat

• ecosystem

Which example shows a relationship between a living thing and a non-living thing?

• An insect is food for salmon.
• Water carries a rock downstream.
• A tree gets nutrients from the soil.
• A flower makes food for a butterfly.

A consumer that eats only other organisms is called a

• herbivore
• carnivore
• omnivore
• scavenger

Nonliving parts of an ecosystem are called

• abiotic factors
• biotic factors
• rocks and dirt
• funiture

A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area are called a/an ________.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

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.