Ecology Vocabulary Quiz

What is a Consumer in ecology?

• An organism that gets energy from eating plants and other animals

• An organism that can make its own food

• An organism that gets energy from dead or decaying organisms

• An animal that hunts other animals for food

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What does a Decomposer do?

• Feeds on the remains of dead animals

• Makes its own food

• Gets energy from eating plants and other animals

• Gets energy from dead or decaying organisms

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What is a Scavenger?

• An organism that can make its own food

• An animal that eats both plants and animals

• An animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals

• An animal that eats other animals

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What is a Producer?

• An organism that eats plants and other producers

• An organism that gets energy from dead or decaying organisms

• An organism that can make its own food

• An organism that gets energy from eating plants and other animals

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What is Ecology?

• The only path of energy in food from one organism to another

• The overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

• The study of how living and nonliving things interact

• Organisms that eat producers

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What is a Food Chain?

• The study of how living and nonliving things interact

• The overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

• The only path of energy in food from one organism to another

• Animals that are the top consumers typically omnivores and have no predators

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What is a Food Web?

• The only path of energy in food from one organism to another

• The study of how living and nonliving things interact

• The overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

• A living thing that is hunted for food

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What is a Herbivore?

• An animal that eats other animals

• An animal that eats both plants and animals

• An animal that eats plants and other producers

• An animal that hunts other animals for food

What is a Carnivore?

• An animal that eats plants and other producers

• An animal that eats both plants and animals

• An animal that hunts other animals for food

• An animal that eats other animals

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What is an Omnivore?

• An animal that eats other animals

• An animal that hunts other animals for food

• An animal that eats plants and other producers

• An animal that eats both plants and animals