Organisms and Environment

An organism that produces its own food supply from inorganic compounds is called a(an)

• heterotroph

• consumer

• detritivore

• autotroph

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

• carbohydrates

• sunlight

• water

• carbon

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The amount of energy that usually transfers from one trophic level to the next...

• 10%

• 20%

• 80%

• 50%

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Water temperature would be an example of ...

• biotic factor

• abiotic factor

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Organisms that feed on both living producers and other consumers.

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

• Herbivores

• Detritivores

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What are the Abiotic factors in this image? 

• water, sunlight, dirt, air

• birds and plants

• birds, water, dirt

• plants, water

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Many members of one species in an area is called...

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Individual

• Population

Look at the food chain, how do frogs get energy?

• from the sun

• from eating caterpillars 

• from eating a plant

• from eating the snake

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The snake in the food chain gets its energy directly from
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• being eaten by the egale

• eating other snakes

• eating the frog

• eating the grass

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An animal that gets eaten by another animal is

• prey

• a predator

• an omnivore

• a carnivore