Ecology Practice Test
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- Q1Ultimate (main) source of energySun20s
- Q2The study of interactions between organisms and their environmentEcology30s
- Q3A consumer that eats only plants.herbivore30s
- Q4An organism that can make its own food.producer30s
- Q5Another name for a producerautotroph30s
- Q6organism that gets its energy by eating its foodconsumer30s
- Q7Another name for a consumerheterotroph30s
- Q8consumer that eats only meat (other animals)carnivore30s
- Q9A consumer that eats both plants and animalsomnivore30s
- Q10organism that breaks down and gets energy from dead organic matter (ex. fungus, bacteria)decomposer30s
- Q11organism that eats dead plants and animal remains and other dead matter (ex. vulture)detritivore (scavenger)30s
- Q12says only 10% of available energy goes to the next trophic level10% rule of energy transfer30s
- Q13happens to 90% of the energy at a trophic levelused for growth and lost as heat30s
- Q14position of top level consumer (has least amount of energy)top of energy pyramid30s
- Q15position of the producers (has the most energy)bottom of energy pyramid30s