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Ecology Review

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What does every food chain start with? (Even if it's not drawn or written there!)
a)
producers
b)
sun
c)
consumer
d)
decomposers
2.
An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:
a)
Autotroph
b)
Producer
c)
Consumer
d)
Mutualist
3.
Consumer that eats plants
a)
heterotroph
b)
herbivore
c)
producer
d)
community
4.
What does a food web represent?
a)
All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
b)
The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
c)
A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
d)
How carnivores get their food. 
5.
relationship in which two species live closely together
a)
resource
b)
mutualism
c)
succession
d)
symbiosis
6.
The rabbit in this food web would be considered a:
a)
Decomposer
b)
Producer
c)
Secondary Consumer
d)
Primary Consumer
7.
Where an organism lives
a)
habitat
b)
niche 
c)
heterotrogh
d)
biosphere
8.
In this Food Web Pyramid Which type of consumer gets only 10% of the energy stored in plants?
a)
Herbivore
b)
Carnivore
c)
Omnivore
d)
Secondary Consumer
9.

Which one is not a consumer?

a)

anemone

b)

bear

c)

shark

d)

cactus

10.
What is the term for each step in the transfer of energy and matter within a biological community?
a)
energy path
b)
food web
c)
trophic level
d)
food pyramid
11.
The image provided is an example of a(n):
a)
Carnivore
b)
Herbivore
c)
Producer
d)
Autotroph
12.
The amount of energy that usually transfers from one trophic level to the next...
a)
10%
b)
20%
c)
80%
d)
50%
13.
An illustration that uses arrows to show the MANY possible directions in which matter and energy can pass through the organisms in an ecosystem.
a)
Food chain
b)
Food web
c)
Energy Pyramid
d)
Succession Map
14.
The nonliving aspects of an ecosystem.
a)
Abiotic factors
b)
Biotic factors
15.
The living portions of the ecosystem.
a)
Biotic factors
b)
Abiotic factors
16.
A graphic illustration that shows each trophic level and the amount of useable energy contained within.
a)
Food chain
b)
Food web
c)
Energy Pyramid
d)
All of these
17.
A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.
a)
Population
b)
Community
c)
Habitat
d)
Ecosystem
18.
As you move upward, from level to level, in an energy pyramid, energy _____.
a)
increases
b)
decreases
c)
stays the same
d)
increases exponentially
19.
 plants that convert energy from the sun
a)
decomposer
b)
primary consumer
c)
secondary consumer
d)
producer
20.
What are the Abiotic factors in this image? 
a)
water, sunlight, dirt, air
b)
birds and plants
c)
birds, water, dirt
d)
plants, water
21.

In which symbiotic relationship does one organism benefit and the other is not affected?

a)

mutualism

b)

commensalism

c)

parasitism

d)

predation

22.

One organism lives by capturing and eating another organism is?

a)

mutualism

b)

commensalism

c)

parasitism

d)

predation

23.

If both organisms in a relationship benefit it is?

a)

mutualism

b)

commensalism

c)

parasitism

d)

predation

24.

An organism that gets its energy by breaking down dead organisms,

a)

carnivore

b)

herbivore

c)

detritivore

d)

omnivore