Ecology Quest Review

Oxygen + ______________ ------> Carbon Dioxide + Energy + _________________

• Sugar & Water

• Water & Sugar

• Carbon Dioxide & Oxygen

• Oxygen & Carbon Dioxide

All organisms require what type of energy?

• Sun Energy

• Radiant Energy

• Renewable Energy

• Uranium Energy

What are the four spheres?

• Hydrosphere, Air, Biosphere, Lithosphere

• Hydrosphere, Air, Watersphere, Biosphere

• Hydrosphere, Atmosphere Biosphere, Geosphere

• Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, Biosphere, Lithosphere

Check off ALL statements that describe photosynthesis

• The starting materials are sugar & oxygen

• The starting materials are carbon dioxide & water

• The reaction requires sunlight

• The products of the reaction are carbon dioxide & water

• The products of the reaction are oxygen & sugar

Match the term with the definition:

• Decomposer

• Consumes only plants for food

• Carnivore

• Consumes decaying organisms and breaks them down

• Omnivore

• Consumes dead remains of other organisms

• Herbivore

• Consumes only animals for food

• Scavenger

• Consumes plants & animals for food

Match the following term to its definition:

• Consumers

• Make their own food

• Producers

• Get food from others within an ecosystem

• Niche

• Used by all living things to convert food energy (sugar) into chemical energy

• Cellular Respiration

• Used by producers to make their own food (sugar)

• Photosynthesis

• The role within an ecosystem

Which of the following animals in the food web is a herbivore?

• Frog

• Owl

• Grasshopper

• Bird

Which of the following animals in the food web is in the 2nd trophic level?

• Grasses

• Snake

• Bird

• Mouse

Which of the following animals in the food web is an apex predator?

• Owl

• Rabbit

• Frog

• Snake

The movement of matter like carbon and water through biotic and abiotic parts of the environments is called:

• Food Chains

• Equilibrium

• Food Web

• Biogeochemical Cycle