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Human beings are considered to be ___________.

• Great

• Decomposers

• Omnivores

• Herbivores

There is more available energy at the producer level than the secondary consumer level.

• True

• False

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Define Ecosystem

• Where an animal lives

• Correct

  A community of organisms and their environment, including living and non-living things

• The environment of an area

• A model showing how energy moves through a food chain

What is a population?

• All of the organisms of a certain species living in a certain area.

• All of the organisms of a certain species that are alive on planet Earth.

• All of the organisms living in a certain area.

• An individual organism.

What is an example of a decomposer?

• Rat

• Vulture

• Worm

• Plant

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Define Habitat

• Animals that sleep through the winter.

• An organism that gets its energy from sunlight.

• An organism that gets its energy from sunlight.

• The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism

What is an Apex Predator?

• A plant

• A carnivore at the secondary consumer level

• An animal with no natural predators that feeds on tertiary and secondary consumers.

• A video game

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What are TWO Abiotic factors?

• Eagle

• River

• Sun

• Rabbit

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A drought (lack of rain) causes the loss of many plants in an ecosystem. How will this effect an ecosystem?

• Just the population of producers will decrease.

• Only the population of producers and primary consumers will decrease.

• The population of producers, primary consumers, and secondary consumers will decrease.

• All of the populations of organisms in the food web will decrease.

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Apex predators in an ecosystem that consistently fed on large herbivores were driven off by humans. What is a likely effect?

• There are no negative effects to the ecosystem.

• The population of large herbivores decreases and the population of producers increases.

• The population of large herbivores increases and the population of producers decreases.

• Banana

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