Ecosystem Vocab

A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving parts of the environment.

• Population

• Community

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

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All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.

• community

• habitat

• population

• ecosystem

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An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

• Plant

• Producer

• Consumer

• Mutualist

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A diagram that uses arrows to show the MANY possible directions in which energy can pass through the organisms in an ecosystem.

• Food chain

• Food web

• Energy Pyramid

• Succession Map

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The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

• Biology

• Chemistry

• Ecology

• Farmacology

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Which of the following would be the definition of a scavenger?

• Animals that eat insects.

• Organisms that feed on rocks, recycling the nutrients back into the ground.

• Organisms that eat only pants

• Organisms that feed on dead organisms, recycling the nutrients back into the ground.

Organisms that feed on both living producers and other consumers.

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

• Herbivores

• Decomposers

What may happen if the snowshoe hare was removed from the food web pictured?

• The insects in the habitat would increase.

• The shrew population would decrease due to being only hawk food source.

• The willow tree population would decrease.

• Foxes would dies due to no food source. 

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An organism's job or role in an ecosystem is called its __________________.

• Habitat

• Species

• Niche

• Biome

A ________________ is a type of consumer that kills and eats other consumers.

• Producer

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore