Ecosystems: Energy and Interactions

What term is used to describe organisms that produce energy-rich compounds used by other organisms?

• Consumers

• Producers

• Decomposers

• Primary Consumers

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What is the term for the total amount of living organisms within a trophic level?

• Biomass

• Bioresevoir

• Trophic Capacity

• Carbon Resevoir

In an ecosystem, where is carbon stored?

• Trophic Level

• Carbon Reservoir

• Energy Reservoir

• Carbonmass

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Primary Producers are also known as

• Autotrophs

• Heterotrophs

• Homotrophs

• Allotrophs

How does energy flow in an ecosystem?

• In a circular path, creating a cycle

• In a two-way stream between producers and consumers

• In a one-way stream between producers and consumers

• At random, creating a food web

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A ___________ is a network of feeding interactions within an ecosystem

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What is another word for consumers?

What happens as energy moves through a food web?

• It increases at each trophic level

• It decreases at each trophic level

• It remains constant as energy cannot be created or destroyed

• It is recycled back to primary producers

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What part of the plant contains the highest energy content?

• Stems and Leaves

• Roots and Seeds

• Leaves and Flowers

• Fruits and Seeds

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Heterotroph is to autotroph as producer is to

• Sunlight

• Biomass

• Chemosynthesis

• Carbon Dioxide

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