Populations and Resources

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

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The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.
• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.
• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 
• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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all the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area

• ecosystem

• ecologist

• exosystem

• ecology

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Check all the things that could be found in an ecosytem.

• animals

• plants

• rocks

• streams

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living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria are called

• organisms

• organ systems

• organ music

• organizations

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when two or more populations use the same resource, such as the same food source

• competition

• completion

• cooperation

• consumerism

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Check all the following that are organisms.

• elk

• soil

• bacteria

• pine trees

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A consumer population is

• a population that eats organisms from another population

• a population that is eaten by organisms from another population

• a population that uses up more energy than other populations

• a population that gets it's energy all from plants

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a scientist who studies interactions of organisms with each other and their environment

• ecologist

• geologist

• cosmologist

• biologist

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What type of scientist might be most likely to work with an ecologist?

• astronomer

• geologist

• cosmologist

• biologist

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