Ecology #1 Review

Match each of the elements pictured below as Biotic or Abiotic.

• Biotic

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• Abiotic

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• Biotic

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• Abiotic

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• Abiotic

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What is a producers job in the ecosystem?

• to make food and oxygen for the animals
• to help plants grow
• to break down dead plants and animals
• to eat plants and other animals

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What is an ecosystem?

• the pattern of weather that affects an area
• the life cycle of a plant
• all the living things in a forest or desert
• all the living and nonliving things that share an environment

What are plants and animals that get their energy from eating other living things?

• producers
• consumers
• herbivores
• decomposers

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What part of a food chain only eats meat?

• omnivores
• producers
• herbivore
• carnivore

Elephants only eat plants.  What kind of consumer is an elephant?

• producer
• omnivore
• herbivore
• carnivore

Which of the following is a natural disaster that could wipe out an ecosystem?

• a sunny day
• forest fire
• rain
• thunder storm

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Which of the following to omnivores eat?

• plants only
• meat only
• both plants and animals
• they make their own food

What is a food web?

• a web created by a spider to trap its food
• a network of food chains in an ecosystem
• a community of plants and animals
• the food that one animal eats

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The phytoplankton are found on trophic level ___, and are ___.

• 1 ; producers

• 2 ; consumers

• 1 ; heterotrophs

• 3 ; producers

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