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Vocabulary
Types of Consumers
Food Chains
Food Webs
Ecosystem Review
100
Another name for producer.
What is an autotroph?
100
Deer, rabbits, and squirrels have this in common.
What are primary consumers?
100
Identify the secondary consumer in the food chain below. grass ➞ grasshopper ➞ mouse ➞ snake.
What is a mouse?
100
This type of organism would be found at the top of a food web.
What is a predator/omnivore/carnivore?
100
Non-native plants or animals that have been introduced into an environment.
What is an invasive/exoctic species?
200
These consumers obtain energy by consuming other organisms.
What are heterotrophs?
200
The level of consumers in a food pyramid that only eat plants.
What are secondary consumers?
200
Consider this food chain: acorns ➞ chipmunk ➞ weasel ➞ snake ➞ eagle The eagle is this type of consumer.
What is a tertiary consumer?
200
An organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms to return nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
200
The variety and variability of life on Earth.
What is biodiversity?
300
A particular group of organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a species?
300
Organisms that are at the top of the food pyramid.
What are tertiary consumers?
300
Consider this food chain: blackberries ➞ bird ➞ wildcat ➞ hawk The wildcat is a carnivore, which makes it what type of consumer.
What is a secondary consumer?
300
The food chain below was identified in a marsh food web. marsh grasses ➞ grasshoppers ➞ frogs ➞ herons. As the population of herons decreased the population of marsh grasses increased because A) There were no herons to consume the marsh grasses. B) As the population of frogs increased, the population of grasshoppers decreased. C) As the population of frogs decreased, the population of grasshoppers increased. D) As the population of frogs increased, the population of grasshoppers increased.
What is B) As the population of frogs increased, the population of grasshoppers decreased.
300
An interacting group of various species in a common location.
What is community?
400
The struggle between organisms for the same resource.
What is competition?
400
These organisms have the most energy in a food pyramid.
What are producers?
400
A diagram that shows the transfer of energy between a single line of organisms.
What is a food chain?
400
Which is true regarding an energy pyramid? A) Carnivores occupy a larger level than herbivores B) Herbivores occupy a smaller level than producers C) Consumers occupy the level below producers D) Producers and carnivores occupy the same level
What is B, Herbivores occupy a smaller level than producers?
400
An organisms' role in its environment.
What is a niche?
500
The sun is the only part of a food web or food chain that is not an organism.
What is an abiotic factor?
500
The organisms ensure that nutrients are returned to the soil.
What are decomposers?
500
Create a food chain using these organisms: chicken, grass, hawk, earthworm, snake
What is grass ➞ earthworm ➞ chicken ➞ snake ➞ hawk?
500
A food web shows that both a spotted owl and cougar get their energy from a flying squirrel. The relationship between the spotted owl and cougar is known as...
What is competition?
500
A community of living things interacting with one another and the nonliving things in their environment.
What is an ecosystem?