Ecology

What are the two parts of an ecosystem?

• water and sunlight
• all living and nonliving organisms
• producers and consumers
• soil and nutrients

What is a niche?

• the place where a species lives
• what a species eats
• the role of a species
• how a species uses resources

What does every food chain start with? (Even if it's not drawn or written there!)

• producers
• sun
• consumer
• decomposers

In this Food Web Pyramid Which type of consumer gets only 10% of the energy stored in plants?

• Herbivore
• Carnivore
• Omnivore
• Secondary Consumer

Where an organism lives

• habitat
• niche 
• heterotrogh
• biosphere

When a plant uptakes water and transpires it to the atmosphere, this is known as _______

• Condensation
• Evapotranspiration
• Infiltration
• Aquifer

What is the correct order for this food chain?

• Owl, Mouse, Grasshopper, Grass

• Grass, Mouse, Owl, Grasshopper

• Grass, Owl, Grasshopper, Mouse

• Grass, Grasshopper, Mouse, Owl

What happens if a population grows past its carrying capacity?

• The population keeps growing

• The population starts to die off

• The entire species will go extinct

• The carrying capacity just increases

A population is...

• A group of one species in one area

• Multiple species that live in one area

• All of the living and nonliving things in an area

• None of these

What does biodiversity mean?

• Only one species in an area.

• The different amount of species in an area

• All abiotic life

• Nitrogen fixation