7th Grade Ecology Vocabulary

A food web is made up of 

• one food chain.
• only producers.
• many different food chains.

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What is a consumer?

• An organism that makes it's own food
• An organisms that eats other organisms for energy
• An organism that breaks down dead organisms

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What is a food chain?

• A chain that shows the flow of energy
• A triangle that shows trophic levels
• A chain used in fishing

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What is an example of a decomposer?

• Plum
• Mushroom
• Deer
• Bird

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What is the original source of almost all energy in most ecosystems?

• carbohydrates
• sunlight
• water
• carbon

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This is not an example of a random natural disruption:

• Tornado

• Annual wild fire

• Volcano

• Hurricane

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We don't know of any organisms that have adapted to use natural disruptions to their advantage.

• True

• False

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What is this a picture of?

• food chain

• food web

• ecosystem

• a pond

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An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism

• Predator
• Prey
• Competition
• Adaptation

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Barn owls hunt shrews. In this example what is a barn owl?

• Herbivore/Predator
• Carnivore/Prey
• Carnivore/Predator

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