Ecology-Notes

Which of the following is considered to be an abiotic factor in the environment?

• Water
• Trees
• Plants
• Coral

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Organisms that produce their own food mostly through photosynthesis (producers). Examples are plants and algae.

• Ominvore

• Detritivore

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Heterotrophs that get energy and nutrition from dead or decaying organisms or their waste products and recycle nutrients back to the ecosystem.

• Producer

• Trophic

• Decomposer

• Autotrooph

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which of the following is a food chain in the food web?

• Rabbit, mountain lion, fox

• Grass, grasshopper, frog, snake, hawk

• Grass, caterpillar, robin, mountain lion

• Tree, deer, mountain lion, fox

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Use the diagram to answer the question.
The Mayfly is a food source for which 3 organisms?

• Frog, Dragon Fly and snake
• Frog, trout and dragon fly
• Frog, salamander and trout
• Frog and phytoplankton

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

How much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next?

• .1%

• 1%

• 10%

• 100%

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

___ are the first organisms to colonize an area and begin the process of ecological succession.

• foundational organisms

• introductory organisms

• primary organisms

• pioneer species

Members of a species in a defined area

• Ecosystem
• community
• biodiversity
• population

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

• foodweb
• consumer
• food chain
• omnivore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What do limiting factors do?

• Separate biotic factors from abiotic factors.

• Determine which is the predator and which is the prey.

• Regulate how many organisms live in an ecosystem.

• Determine which natural disasters will hit an area.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4