Types of Organisms
Food Webs
Energy Pyramids
General Ecology
Decomposers
100
Plants are also known as this.
What are producers?
100
Arrows represent the flow of __________ in an ecosystem.
What is energy?
100
This type of organism is found in level A.
What are producers/plants?
100
Oxygen levels, temperature, pH, and sunlight are nonliving and therefore called __________factors.
What is abiotic?
100
Fungi and ________ are the main types of decomposers.
Bacteria
200
Animals are also known as this.
What are consumers?
200
State what is wrong with the following food chain:
grass <-- rabbit <-- wolf
Arrows should go in the other direction.
200
This level contains the most amount of stored energy.
What is level A?
200
This type of factor prevents a population of organisms from growing too large.
What are limiting factors?
200
Decomposers feed on this.
Dead organisms
300
This type of consumer only eats other consumers.
What are carnivores?
300
According to the food web, a mouse eats these 2 things.
What are grasses and flower seeds?
300
This level contains primary consumers.
What is level B?
300
The maximum number of individuals that an ecosystem can support is called the ____________________
What is the carrying capacity?
300
Decomposers help do this with nutrients from dead organisms.
recycle them back into the environment
400
This type of consumer gets energy by eating both producers and other consumers.
What are omnivores?
400
According to the food web, mountain lions and hawks compete for this source of energy (food).
What are rabbits?
400
This level contains the apex predator.
What is level D?
400
These are the 2 main types of things that interact within an ecosystem.
What are biotic and abiotic factors?
400
This type of organism directly depends on the nutrients left behind by decomposers
plants/producers
500
This is the main source of energy for producers.
What is the sun/sunlight?
500
Name 2 secondary consumers in the given food web.
What are insect-eating birds, snakes, hawks, mountain lions?
500
These 2 levels contain carnivores or omnivores.
What is level C and level D?
500
This is the kind of ecosystem that is found in most of New York State.
What is a temperate forest/seasonal forest?
500
Which organism represents the decomposer and why?
E because it receives energy from all of the other organisms.