Food Web Quiz

All energy transformations in an ecosystem begin with

• a scavenger
• the sun
• a decomposer
• a herbivore

a deer population has significantly increased, the best hypothesis is 

• the deer's main predator has been eliminated
• competition increased
• decreased water levels of local ponds
• organisms that rely on similar food sources migrated to the area

Which relationship describes predator/prey

• hawks and shrubs
• mountain lion and deer
• frogs and trees
• grasses and crickets

A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another is termed..

• energy pyramid
• adaptation
• autotroph
• food web

a system of food chains that shows the transfer of energy  is termed

• food web
• food chain
• prey
• predator

an organism that can produce its own food through photosynthesis

• consumer

• heterotroph

• producer

• herbivore

Biodiversity is 

• the variety of species within an ecosystem
• a large number of the same species in an ecosystem
• an abundant amount of the same primary consumers 
• the ability to have an abundant source from the same species

__________ is an organism that only eats plants for energy.

• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Omnivore
• Terivore

__________ is an organism that only eats meat for energy.

• Omnivore
• Borivore
• Herbivore
• Carnivore

__________ is an organism that eats BOTH plants and animals for energy.

• Omnivore
• Darnivore
• Carnivore
• Herbiovre