Ecology

1. What makes a species invasive?

• Moving to a new ecosystem and taking resources from natives 
• Not having papers
• Species that can't adapt
• Plants that take up too much space

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symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit

• competition

• mutualism

• predation

• commensalism

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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. 

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Organisms that breaks down and absorbs nutrients from dead organisms 

• consumer
• trophic level
• decomposer
• species

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Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

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The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer
• Producer
• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer

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What are plants that convert energy from the sun called?

• decomposer

• primary consumer

• secondary consumer

• producer

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What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web pictured?

• The insects in the habitat would increase.
• The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.
• The willow tree population would decrease.
• Foxes would dies due to no food source. 

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What is a species?

• Different animals that compete for the same resources

• A group of similar organisms that can reproduce with each other

• A group of organisms that live together

• A group of organisms that are physically and functionally very different from each other

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Which organism recieves the least amount of energy from the producer?

• Owl
• Grasshopper
• Lilypad
• Mouse

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