Ecology 1

Green plants are

• producers
• consumers
• herbivores
• omnivores

symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit

• competition

• mutualism

• predation

• commensalism

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. 

Organisms that breaks down and absorbs nutrients from dead organisms 

• consumer
• trophic level
• decomposer
• species

Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer
• Producer
• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer

What are plants that convert energy from the sun called?

• decomposer

• primary consumer

• secondary consumer

• producer

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. 

In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in the producers gets passed to the herbivores?

• 10%
• 20%
• 80%
• 90%

What term do ecologists use to describe where an animal lives (an animal’s home)?

• Ecosystem

• Ecologist

• Habitat

• Population