Unit 10 Ecology Review

What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms
• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food
• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste
• an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

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The diagram below shows the cycling of nutrients in an ecosystem.
The removal of which of the following groups would cause an immediate decrease in the amount of energy flowing through the system?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Inorganic nutrients

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

• carbohydrates
• sunlight
• water
• carbon

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What is an ecological model of the linear energetic relationship among organisms in a community (from producers to decomposers)?

• food web

• an ecosystem

• food chain

• a population

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many living and non-living things living together is called an _______________

• ecosystem

• organism

• community

• population

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many turtles living together is called a ______________

• ecosystem

• population

• coomunity

• organism

all living things together in one area is called a ____________

• community

• population

• ecosystem

humans and animals are _________ because we need to eat food for energy.

• producers

• prey

• consumers

• population

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an animal that hunts other animals is called a ____________

• prey

• predator

• producer

• herbivore

an animal that is hunted and eaten by other animals is called ________

• prey

• predator

• producer

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