Ecology Terminology

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

What does every food chain start with? (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 organisms get their food.

• 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

• ecology

• biosphere

In this Food Web Pyramid, what percent of energy gets passed on to the next level?

• 10%

• 20%

• 70%

• 90%

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What is the term for each feeding level?

• energy path

• food web

• trophic level

• food pyramid

The image provided is an example of a(n):

• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Producer
• Autotroph

An illustration that uses arrows to show the MANY possible directions in which matter and energy can pass through the organisms in an ecosystem.

• Food chain
• Food web
• Energy Pyramid
• Succession Map

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