Ecology Quiz 13B

Which best describes what a food chain shows you?

• Energy flow through an ecosystem
• Food flowing through an ecosystem
• Consumers going into other consumers
• Who eats who

What are the organisms that break down dead stuff?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Organisms

Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant
• Sun
• Deer
• Wolf

What is the role of a producer?

• Use sunlight to make food
• Gain energy from eating other organisms
• Keep other species from overpopulating
• Breaking down dead stuff 

What's the role of consumers in a food chain?

• Use sunlight to make food 
• Eat other species and keep them from overpopulating
• Break down dead stuff
• Add nutrients to the soil

Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant
• Rabbit
• Mouse
• Hawk

What trophic level has the most energy?

• Autotrophs
• Heterotrophs
• Omnivores
• Consumers

Organisms that is able to convert the energy from the sun into chemical energy (glucose).

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

Organisms that eat other organisms to gain energy.

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Producer

Another word for autotroph is

• Predator

• Consumer

• Heterotroph

• Producer