Energy Flow Ecosystems | Carbon Cycle Practice Quiz

What is an autotroph?

• An organism that makes its own food

• An organism that needs to eat other organisms

What is a heterotroph?

• An organism that makes its own food

• An organism that needs to eat other organisms

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

What is the ultimate source of energy for most ecosystems?

• Sun

• Water

• Oxygen

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Consumers are all heterotrophs

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

How much energy can be passed to the next trophic level?

• 10%

• 25%

• 50%

• 100%

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

How does some energy get lost as you move up in trophic levels?

• Heat

• Used for digestion

• Used for growth

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An animal that only eats plants

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Detritivore

An animal that only eats meat

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Detritivore

An animal that eats both meat and plants

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Detritivore

An animal that eats dead and decaying organisms

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Detritivore