Unit 3 Study Guide Ecology

All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

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The non-living part of an ecosystem

• Ocean

• biosphere

• Birds

• Abiotic

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The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

• Biology
• Lithology
• Ecology
• Farmacology

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Two or more members of a particular species living and interacting in the same area

• Community
• Population
• Organisms
• Biosphere

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Different populations living and interacting with each other in the same area

• Biome
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Niche

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Examples of a producer

• frog
• algae
• worm
• mouse

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What is an autotroph? Choose both answers that are correct.

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms

• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food

• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

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What is a herbivore?

• an animal that gets energy from eating other animals
• an organism that gets energy from eating only plants
• an animal that gets energy by eating both plants and other animals
• an animal that eats only herbs

An animal that gets energy from eating both plants and animals is a 

• herbivore
• carnivore
• omnivore
• autotroph

The shrew provides energy for the _______?

• cricket
• grasshopper
• frog
• snake

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