Ecology

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

• carbohydrates

• sunlight

• water

• carbon

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What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.

• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.

• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 

• How carnivores get their food. 

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a relationship between two in which one species, the predator, feeds on the other species, the prey

• chemosynthesis

• predation

• cellular respiration 

• commensalism

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What  is a single member of a population called?

• individual

• specie

• organism

• living thing

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Which sphere of the Earth includes all living organisms?

• Atmosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

• Geosphere

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A deceased body was found in the snow this will cause a ​ (a)   insect activity, and in the decomposition process.

• decrease

• increase

• not effect

• speed up

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The following statement is a hypothesis formed about marsh grass: 
If the amount of nitrogen marsh grass receives is increased, then the height of the grass will increase, because nitrogen is an essential nutrient needed for marsh grass to grow.
What is the independent variable of the statement above? 

• Height of grass

• Amount of nitrogen

• Essential nutrient

• Amount of growth

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what biotic community is represented by the group of cats, as shown on the background picture ?

• Organism

• Population

• Community

• all of the above

Green plants are

• producers

• consumers

• herbivores

• omnivores

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Where an organism lives

• habitat

• niche 

• heterotrogh

• biosphere