Ch.3-Ecosystems Review

Match the following

• Scavenger

• Organisms that capture energy from nonliving sources

• Photosynthesis

• Process using chemical energy to make sugar

• Chemosynthesis

• Detritivore

• Organisms that eat decomposed material

• Animals that eat dead animals

• Autotroph

• Process using sunlight to produce sugars

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When organisms are arranged to show how energy moves from 1 species to another this is a ____ _____

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What two things do food web illustrate?

• How energy and matter move

• How energy and biomass move

• How matter and nutrients move

• How sunlight and sugar move

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Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Herbivore

,

(b) Carnivore

,

(c) Scavenger

,

(d) Decomposer

• lichen

• mushroom

• deer

• alligator

• bass

• hyena

• flies

• raccoon

• bacteria

• bobcat

• vulture

• rabbit

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Only __% of the energy is moved to the next trophic level

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Where does most of the energy go that is not transferred to the next trophic level?

• respiration

• sleep

• growth

• movement

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Dead material is considered biomass

• True

• False

• Sometimes

• Absolutely

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Energy flow is ___-___, while ______ is recycled

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Which is NOT a type of process that recycles matter?

• Biological Processes

• Human activity

• Cleansing Processes

• Chemical Processes

How do plants contribute to the water cycle?

• They take in water from the ground

• They evaporate water into water vapor

• They add water to the ground after photosynthesis

• They release water into the atmosphere through transpiration

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