Ecology Unit Test Remediation

1. An organism that eats other organisms is called a _______.

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• autotroph

An organism that makes its own food is NOT called a heterotroph but an _______.

• autotroph

• saprotroph

• parasite

• consumer

An organism that eats meat is called a _______.

• carnivore

• herbivore

• omnivore

• producer

An organism that eats only plants is called a _______.

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

• insectivore

An organism that eats both meat and plants is called _______.

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

• insectivore

When two or more organisms fight for resources it is called _______.

• competition

• migration

• photosynthesis

• predation

This biome has lots of pressure, is dark and has many creepy fish and sea creatures: _______.

• deep ocean

• savanna

• rainforest

• desert

The organism that gets eaten is called _______.

• prey

• predator

• producer

• decomposer

This biome is characterized by few trees and many grasses, is warm and has lions, tigers and giraffes: _______.

• savanna

• tundra

• desert

• taiga

This biome is characterized by frozen subsoil (permafrost) and includes animals such as the polar bear, lemming, and arctic hare: _______.

• tundra

• desert

• rainforest

• savanna