Ecology

A secondary consumer 

• eats primary consumers

• eats producers

• eats plants

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Level 1 is called the _____________ trophic level. 

• Tertiary consumer

• Tertiary producer

• Primary consumer

• Primary producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

How does the energy flow in an energy pyramids?

• up the pyramid

• down the pyramid

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which is the smallest level of an ecosystem?

• organsism

• population

• community

• ecosystem

a system of food chains that shows the transfer of energy  is termed

• food web

• food chain

• prey

• predator

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Biodiversity is 

• the variety of species within an ecosystem

• a large number of the same species in an ecosystem

• an abundant amount of the same primary consumers 

• the ability to have an abundant source from the same species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Photosynthesis is important because...

• it makes carbon dioxide

• it makes food for the food webs

• it makes water

• it's not important

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Which of the following best describes the role of bacteria in the food web above?

• Uses energy from light, to combine oxygen, carbon dioxide and water and converts it into energy in the form of sugar.

• Uses energy from dead organisms or waste material to break down dead organisms and waste material into nutrients.

• Controls the population by removing energy from living organisms

• Uses energy from dead organisms or waste material to transfers energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is this called?

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Abiotic Factors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Barnacles are animals that cannot move. In order to get food, they attach to whales and catch any floating plankton in the water. The whale is neither helped nor harmed in the interaction. What type of symbiosis is this?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Neutralism