Ecology Review - MO EOC

Most of the energy an organism gets from eating is

Plant-eating animals such as caterpillars are called

Organisms that break down organic matter and return it to the environment are called

Seawater, pebbles, and broken seashells are abiotic factors at the ocean.

If the bottom level of an energy pyramid has 1000 calories of energy, the next level has

Which description about ecosystem organization is correct?

Plants are

All are abiotic factors except

The branch of biology dealing with environmental interactions is called

Which are examples of abiotic factors?

How are herbivores and carnivores similar?

On an food web, all arrows point to:

Animals that eat plants are called consumers.

Which eats producers and consumers?

A word that means the same thing as heterotroph is

A biotic factor that affects a population size in a specific ecosystem is:

The study of interactions among organisms and with their environment is called ecology.

Organisms within an ecosystem are abiotic factors in that ecosystem.

Animals getting energy from eating other dead animals are called

A cat stalks and eats a mouse.  Based on this, what pair of terms describes the cat?

Abiotic and biotic factors interact in this example:

How do most producers make their own food?

The lowest level of ecology which includes living and nonliving components is called a

The most simple grouping which includes more than one species is called a(an)