Basic Ecology

The Australian pitcher plant (Cephalotus follicularis) is a green plant that traps and feeds on flies and other live insects. What is this plant’s mode of nutrition?

• Producer and saprotroph

• Autotroph and detritivore

• Autotroph and heterotroph

• Consumer and saprotroph

What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers-Autotrophs

• Consumers-Heterotrophs

• Decomposers

• Scavengers

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What is the role of decomposers in a food chain?

• Use sunlight to make food

• Eat other organisms to gain energy

• Make the food for the whole food chain

• Break down dead organisms and add nutrients to the soil

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Which of these organisms would receive energy from the snake?

• Plant

• Rabbit

• Mouse

• Hawk

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In this image, the grass is the ______________.

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Heterotroph

• Producer

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The primary consumer in this food chain is the ____________.

• Frog

• Eagle

• Grasshopper

• Python

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Which animal is a tertiary consumer?

• Jackal

• Wild Cat

• Lion

• Owl

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Different students drew illustrations of the flow of energy in an ecosystem. Which student is most accurate?

• Student 1

• Student 2

• Student 3

• Student 4

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An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

• Autotroph

• Producer

• Consumer

• Mutualist

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The largest group of organisms found in a food web would be:

• Primary Consumers

• Producers

• Decomposers

• Tertiary Consumers

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