Biodiversity

Which type of consumer eats meat only?

• Producers

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

Which organisms are the consumers?

• deer and squirrel

• flowers and deer

• deer and mushrooms

• squirrel and mushrooms

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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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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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What would happen if the grizzly bear decreased in this food web?

• There would be less red tail hawks.

• There would be more deer.

• There would be a decrease in chipmunks.

• There would be increase in butterflys.

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A tick and a dog have this type of relationship.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• neutralism

• parasitism

Cattle egrets are birds that forage in fields among cattle. The egrets get easy access to food and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• competition

• parasitism

The snake is a predator to what prey in this food chain?

• frog

• grass

• grasshopper

• hawk

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What is the role of a producer?

• Use sunlight to make food

• Gain energy from eating other organisms

• Keep other species from overpopulating

• Breaking down dead stuff 

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Which habitat exhibits the greatest biodiversity?

• A habitat with 15 different species with about 300 individuals each

• A habitat with 10 different species with about 75 individuals each

• A habitat with 4 different species with about 150 individuals each

• A habitat with only one species with about 2000 individual

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