food chain food web energy pyramid

An organism that can make its own food is called?

• Consumer
• Producer
• Decomposer
• Herbivore

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An organism that lives by breaking apart dead organic matter into simpler parts is...

• scavenger
• consumer
• decomposer
• carnivore

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Overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up....

• food web
• food chain
• niche
• symbiosis

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A fox is an example of...

• Biotic Factor
• Abiotic Factor

In Australia the farmers had a problem with beetles eating the sugar cane. So they introduced the cane toad to control that population. Instead of eating the beetles, they ate the source of food and other organisms. What would be a possible consequence of this?

• The other organisms attacks the toad population
• The ecosystem would be destroyed
• The cane toads would get too much food and die
• The food web was changed by this one organism

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In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in the producers gets passed to the herbivores?

• 10%
• 20%
• 80%
• 90%

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The owl receives energy from which organisms?

• grasshopper and mouse
• mouse and rabbit
• rabbit and butterfly
• butterfly and frog

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What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web pictured?

• The insects in the habitat would increase.
• The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.
• The willow tree population would decrease.
• Foxes would dies due to no food source. 

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The mouse in this food web would be considered a:

• Primary Consumer
• Producer
• Tertiary Consumer
• Secondary Consumer

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Which of the following would be the most likely effect, if there were a sudden increase in the cricket population?

• There would be a decrease in the small bird population.
• There would be a decrease in the grass/flowers population.
• There would be a decrease in the mice population.
• There would be an increase in the grass/flowers population.

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