Basic Ecology

If the grasshoppers were removed, what would happen to the rat population?

• Rat population would decrease.

• Rat population would increase.

• Rat population would not change.

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If the eagle was removed from the food web, what would happen to its prey?

• They would overpopulate because they have no predators.

• They would decrease because they are being eaten.

• No change would occur to its prey.

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What is this called?

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Abiotic Factors

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A biotic factor is

• Living

• Non-living

• Both

• Neither

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Which would be a biotic factor for salmon in a river?

• Water temperature

• Water pH

• Bacteria in water

• Water salt concentration

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An organism that eats other animals that eat producers.

• tertiary

  consumers

• producers

• secondary consumers

• herbivorous

An animal that only eats other animals.

• carnivorous

• herbivorous

• omnivorous

• producer

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A path of energy transfer from one organism to another.

• food chain

• fungi

• decomposer

• primary

  consumer

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An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy.

• food web

• decomposer

• food

• producer

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Herbivores that feed on producers

• primary consumer

• secondary consumer

• tertiary consumer