Environmental Science Midterm Review

Which level of the pyramid contains the most amount of energy?

• Tertiary consumer

• secondary consumer

• Primary consumer

• Producer

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The amount of energy that usually transfers from one trophic level to the next...

• 10%

• 20%

• 80%

• 50%

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The living portions of the ecosystem.

• Biotic factors

• Abiotic factors

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Organisms that can capture energy from inorganic, nonliving sources (for example: the sun)

• Producers

• Consumers

• Detritivores

• Carnivores

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If only 10% of the energy transfers to the next level where does the 90% go??

• Chemical energy

• Kinetic energy

• Thermal (heat) energy

• Mechanical energy

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Where an organism lives

• habitat

• niche 

• heterotrogh

• biosphere

Food Web

• System of several overlapping food chains

• energy moving from one level to the next

• living/nonliving factors in an ecisystem

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the conflict between the short-term interests of individuals and the long-term welfare of society

• law of supply and demand

• law of economics

• Tragedy of the Commons

• scientific law

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Which of the following is an abiotic factor in an ecosystem?

• water

• bacteria

• plants

• vertebrates

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The energy in most ecosystems comes from _______________.

• Wind

• Carbohydrates

• Photosynthesis

• The sun

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