Ecology and Biodiversity 5.3

What does every food chain start with?

• Consumer

• Producer

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

An organism that needs to eat other organisms to get their energy is called a

• Consumer

• Producer

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

A consumer that eats plants is called a ...

• Producer

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

A food web illustrates the ...

• the flow of energy through an ecosystem

• what eats what in an ecosystem

• feeding relationships within an ecosystem

• all of the answers here are correct

A ______________________ is where an organism lives

This type of organism is called a ...

• carnivore

• omnivore

• pescavore

• herbivore

Humans can be herbivores or omnivores

• True

• False

The word used to describe an organism that cannot produce its own food is a ___________________________

The living parts of an ecosystem are referred to as ...

• Abiotic

• Biotic

The non-living parts of an ecosystem are referred to as ...

• Abiotic

• Biotic