Ecology

Match the following

• organism that makes its own food

• primary consumer

• organism that eats animals

• producer

• organism that eats plants

• carnivore

• organism that eats plants and animals

• herbivore

• organism that eats a producer or another

• omnivore

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Arrows in an energy pyramid show the (a)   as one organism is eaten by another. ​

• flow of energy
• increase in population
• transfer of abiotic factors into biotic factors

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Click on the location in the energy pyramid where producers are found.

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Organize these organisms into the correct categories

Groups:

(a) herbivore

,

(b) carnivore

,

(c) decomposer

,

(d) producer

• worms

• rabbit
• bacteria

• 
• grasses

• sunflower
• giraffe
• 
• 
• deer

• koala
• hawk

• elephant
• 
• tiger

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What animals might be affected if a disease killed off all the frogs in the food web?

• the owl, snake and grasshopper

• the snake only

• the owl only

• the rabbit and mouse

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Match the following organism or entity with its role in an ecosystem.

• the original source of energy

• decomposer

• transfers the Sun's energy into food

• primary consumer

• returns nutrients to the environment

• the Sun

• transfers energy by eating producers

• producer

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Why is only 10% of the energy consumed at one level available to organisms at the next level?

• Organisms use 50% of the energy for their life processes.

• Organisms use 90% of the energy for their life processes.

• Organisms can generate more energy by eating more organisms.

• Organisms lose energy through cellular respiration.

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Food and water are ​ (a)   because they can limit the size of a species' ​ (b)  

• limiting factors
• population.
• heterotrophs
• community

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Lichens and moss are called ​ (a)   because they​ are the ​ (b)   organisms to inhabit a barren (bare) area.

• pioneer species
• first
• primary consumers
• only

Match the following

• food web

• 
• primary succession

• 
• carrying capacity

• 
• secondary succession

• 
• energy pyramid

• 

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