Terms Used in Ecology

The ecological role an organism performs in their specific environment is considered the organism's...

• Habitat

• Population

• Biome

• Niche

"Organisms that have moved to a location that does not naturally support them."

• Invasive species

• Destructive species

• Unwelcomed species

• Infected species

What name is given to species that make their own food?

• Producers
• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Omnivores

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Which one of these are primary consumer?

• Producers
• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Omnivores

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Which one of these are primary and secondary consumers?

• Producers
• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Omnivores

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Where does the energy in every food chain/web come from? (Even if it's not drawn or written there!)

• producers

• sun

• consumer

• decomposers

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What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

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The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:

• Decomposer
• Producer
• Secondary Consumer
• Primary Consumer

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Where an organism lives

• habitat
• niche 
• heterotrogh
• biosphere

In this Food Web Pyramid Which type of consumer gets only 10% of the energy stored in plants?

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

• Producer

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