Energy Flow in an Ecosystem

What is an autotroph?

• An organism that collects energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to make food

• An organism that gets its energy by consuming other organisms

• An organism that eats only plants

• An organism that eats fragments of dead matter

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What is a heterotroph?

• An organism that collects energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to make food

• An organism that gets its energy by consuming other organisms

• An organism that eats only plants

• An organism that eats fragments of dead matter

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What does an herbivore eat?

• Plants

• Animals

• Both plants and animals

• Fragments of dead matter

What does a carnivore eat?

• Plants

• Animals

• Both plants and animals

• Fragments of dead matter

What does an omnivore eat?

• Plants

• Animals

• Both plants and animals

• Fragments of dead matter

What does a detritivore eat?

• Plants

• Animals

• Both plants and animals

• Fragments of dead matter

What is a food chain?

• A simple model that shows how energy flows through an ecosystem

• A model representing the many interconnected food chains and pathways in which energy flows through a group of organisms

• A diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy, biomass, or numbers of organisms at each trophic level

• The total mass of living matter at each trophic level

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What is a food web?

• A simple model that shows how energy flows through an ecosystem

• A model representing the many interconnected food chains and pathways in which energy flows through a group of organisms

• A diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy, biomass, or numbers of organisms at each trophic level

• The total mass of living matter at each trophic level

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What is an ecological pyramid?

• A simple model that shows how energy flows through an ecosystem

• A model representing the many interconnected food chains and pathways in which energy flows through a group of organisms

• A diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy, biomass, or numbers of organisms at each trophic level

• The total mass of living matter at each trophic level

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What is biomass?

• A simple model that shows how energy flows through an ecosystem

• A model representing the many interconnected food chains and pathways in which energy flows through a group of organisms

• A diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy, biomass, or numbers of organisms at each trophic level

• The total mass of living matter at each trophic level

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