AICE Environmental Management Vocab Quiz 3

What is the green pigment in the leaves of all green plants responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis?

• Chlorophyll

• Biomass

• Food Chain

• Consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What term describes the total quantity or weight of organic material in an ecosystem or plant material used as an energy source?

• Biomass

• Trophic Level

• Ecological Niche

• Primary Producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is the feeding sequence of organisms indicating the flow of energy as one species is consumed by the next, from the primary producer through to the apex predator?

• Food Chain

• Ecological Pyramid

• Biotic

• Consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is a group of organisms within an ecosystem that fill the same level within a food chain called?

• Trophic Level

• Ecological Niche

• Primary Producer

• Biomass

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is a graphic representation of the relationship between organisms at different trophic levels in an ecosystem?

• Ecological Pyramid

• Food Chain

• Consumer

• Biotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is the organism within a food chain that produces its own food source through photosynthesis?

• Primary Producer

• Consumer

• Ecological Niche

• Biomass

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other organisms in order to obtain nutrients?

• Consumer

• Primary Producer

• Trophic Level

• Ecological Pyramid

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the role and position that a species fills in an ecosystem?

• Ecological Niche

• Biomass

• Food Chain

• Primary Producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What term describes the living components of an ecosystem?

• Biotic

• Consumer

• Ecological Pyramid

• Trophic Level

What is the layer of the atmosphere above the stratosphere?

• mesosphere

• ozone layer

• biosphere

• hydrosphere