Ecology Review #1

What is the role of fungi in food webs?

• scavenger
• bacteria
• producer
• decomposer

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Which of the following refers to all the organisms in a particular area?

• ecosystem
• community
• organelles
• population

How do producers get the nutrients they need to survive?

• They obtain energy from eating other organisms.
• The break down and use the nutrients in dead organisms.
• They absorb nutrients from the atmosphere. 
• They use energy from the sun to make glucose from water and carbon dioxide. 

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A large increase in the number of birds in this food web would most likely result in...

• a decrease in the number of grasshoppers.
• an increase in the number of grasshoppers. 
• an increase in the number of producers and grasshoppers. 
• a decrease in the number of producers. 

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What do the arrows in the diagram represent?

• flow of energy

• life cycle stages

• ecological succession

• renewable resource deletion

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What is the term that describes the natural place that an organism lives?

• adaptation

• niche

• habitat

• community

What is the term for all the living and nonliving things in a particular area?

• ecosystem

• habitat

• community

• population

How is a food web different from a food chain?

• Food webs contain only producers, not consumers.

• Food webs do not include decomposers.

• Food webs contain many different, linked food chains.

• Food webs exist in aquatic environments; food chains exist in terrestrial environments.

Which of the following is a producer?

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Through what process do producers make their own food?

• Parthenogenesis

• Photosynthesis

• Meiosis

• Mitosis

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