Ecology Warm-ups

Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

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An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

• Autotroph
• Producer
• Consumer
• Mutualist

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What are plants that convert energy from the sun called?

• decomposer

• primary consumer

• secondary consumer

• producer

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What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms
• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food
• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste
• an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

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When we say that a species adapts to changes in the environment, we mean that:

• the species becomes extinct

• the species has to move to a new environment

• the species adjusts and copes with the changes

• the species is completely unaffected by the changes

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Nonliving parts of an ecosystem are called

• abiotic factors
• biotic factors
• rocks and dirt
• funiture

Heterotrophs that eat producers and other heterotrophs are called...

• autotrophs

• herbivores

• carnivores

• omnivores

A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area are called a/an ________.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

Select the three things plants need to do photosynthesis.

• Water

• Glucose

• Carbon dioxide

• Light energy

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What does a food web represent?

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