Ecosystems

What do consumers do in the food chain?

• They obtain energy from other organisms. 
• They break down dead plant and animal material. 
• They use sunlight to make food. 
• They are parasites of plants. 

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Which of the following food chains shows the correct energy flow left to right? 

• rabbit-coyote-grass
• grass-rabbit-coyote
• coyote-rabbit-grass
• grass-coyote-rabbit

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Which of the following adaptations would be most useful for a desert reptile? 

• long hair to keep it warm at night.
• white coloring to hide it from predators.
• webbed feet for quicker movement. 
• thick outer body covering to reduce moisture loss. 

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Which of the following directly use the Sun's energy to produce their own food? 

• decomposers
• carnivores
• consumers
• producers

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Which organism do the owl and the weasel compete for in the food web?

• Hawk
• Spider
• Grasshopper
• Shrew

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Which of the following is a herbivore?

• cricket
• frog
• hawk
• shrew

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A consumer that hunts is called:

• a producer.
• an omnivore.
• a predator.
• a herbivore.

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A frog eats a fly. The frog and fly are demonstrating ________.

• mutualism
• competition
• predator/prey
• parasitism

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All of the living AND non-living things in an particular area is called a(n):

• ecosystem
• house
• community
• mountain

A connection of food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem is a ____________.

• ecosystem
• food web
• environment
• population

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