Ecology and Energy Flow

What are the plants in this picture? 

• Heterotrophs 

• Autotrophs

• Carnivores 

• Herbivores 

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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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Water temperature would be an example of ...

• A biotic factor

• An abiotic factor

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The general name for organisms like animals and fungi that get their energy from eating other organisms.

• Producers

• Consumers

• Detritivores

• Carnivores

An organism at the second trophic level would be considered a...

• Top carnivore

• Producer

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

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An organism's niche is 

• the entire role an organism has in the place it lives

• the range of temperatures that the organism needs to survive

• all the physical and biological factors in the organism's environment

• the nutrients that flow from the organism to the environment

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The non-living part of an ecosystem

• Ocean

• Lava Flow

• Birds

• Abiotic

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Different populations living and interacting with each other in the same area

• Biome

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Niche

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What organisms form the base of a food chain?

• Decomposers

• Tertiary consumers

• Secondary consumers

• Primary producers

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