Ecology part 1

What is the role of fungi in food webs?

• scavenger
• bacteria
• producer
• decomposer

Nearly all energy that fuels life on Earth comes from

• water
• the soil
• the sun
• the air

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Which of the following refers to all the organisms in a particular area?

• ecosystem
• community
• organelles
• population

How do producers get the nutrients they need to survive?

• They obtain energy from eating other organisms.
• The break down and use the nutrients in dead organisms.
• They absorb nutrients from the atmosphere. 
• They use energy from the sun to make glucose from water and carbon dioxide. 

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A large increase in the number of birds in this food web would most likely result in...

• a decrease in the number of grasshoppers.
• an increase in the number of grasshoppers. 
• an increase in the number of producers and grasshoppers. 
• a decrease in the number of producers. 

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Identify a primary consumer in this food web.

• grass
• squirrel 
• vulture
• cougar

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In any population there will be individuals with traits that give them allow the to survive and reproduce better. This is part of which scientific theory?

• mutations
• natural selection
• genetic resistance
• translation

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What are the traits that make an organism better able to survive in its environment called?

• adaptations
• evolution
• niche
• population

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What life process is occurring in the diagram?

• separation from parent

• asexual reproduction

• metamorphosis

• extinction

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What do the arrows in the diagram represent?

• flow of energy

• life cycle stages

• ecological succession

• renewable resource deletion

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