Duplicate of Ecology Unit 1: Lessons 1 & 2 Review

Question 1

The interactions of living things together with their environment is called what?

Accepted Answer

ecosystem

Question 2

The connection of several food chains make up what?

Accepted Answer

Food web

Question 3

Which model shows all the feeding relationships in an ecosystem?

Accepted Answer

food web

Question 4

Which model shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level?

Accepted Answer

energy pyramid

Question 5

The study of the relationships between living things and their environment is called...

Accepted Answer

ecology

Question 6

Which of these would NOT describe an animal?

Accepted Answer

decomposer

Question 7

Which organism in the food web is a tertiary consumer?

Accepted Answer

Hawk

Question 8

All of the living parts of an ecosystem are what?

Accepted Answer

biotic

Question 9

Which type of organisms only eat producers?

Accepted Answer

herbivore

Question 10

What term means "organisms closely related that can produce fertile offspring?"

Accepted Answer

species

Question 11

Which type of organism eats other organisms?

Accepted Answer

consumer

Question 12

Which level of an energy pyramid in an ecosystem has the most energy?

Accepted Answer

producer

Question 13

A grasshopper eating the grass is eaten by a frog. At which level is the frog?

Accepted Answer

secondary consumer

Question 14

Which pair of terms could apply to the same organism?

Accepted Answer

consumer/scavenger

Question 15

Which type of organism breaks down dead plants and dead animals into simpler compounds?

Accepted Answer

decomposer

Question 16

Which of the following is an example of a population?

Accepted Answer

some frogs

Question 17

Squirrels eat/plant acorns and provide food energy to hawks. This describes a squirrel's...

Accepted Answer

niche

Question 18

A raccoon comes along and eats the frog. What is the position of the raccoon?

Accepted Answer

tertiary consumer

Question 19

A community would include...

Accepted Answer

all living things interacting in an area

Question 20

All of the non-living parts of an ecosystem are what?

Accepted Answer

abiotic

Question 21

Based on this food web, which of the following would be a correct food chain?

Accepted Answer

Grass -> Grasshopper -> Lizard -> Hawk

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