Ecology review

What comes next in Ecological organization? Species---population---community--?

• ecosystem

• biosphere

• population

• biome

What does abiotic mean

• living part of environment

• Use sunlight to make energy

• non-living part of environment

• chemically break down organic matter

What does biotic mean?

• non-living part of the environment

• produce their own food

• chemically break down organic matter

• any living part of the environment

Which type of consumer consumes carcasses of dead animals?

• scavenger

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

Which type of consumer eats plants (producers)

• scavenger

• decomposer (detrivore)

• omnivore

• herbivore

Which type of consumer chemically breaks down organic matter to be returned to the soil?

• scavenger

• decomposer (detrivore)

• carnivore

• herbivore

Which type of consumer eats plants and animals?

• omnivore

• scavenger

• herbivore

• carnivore

Which type of consumer kills and eats other animals?

• herbivore

• scavenger

• carnivore

• decomposer (detrivore)

Which biome?

• tropical grassland (savannah)

• temperate desert

• Taiga

• Tundra

Which biomes?

• temperate desert

• taiga

• tropical grassland

• tropical desert