Which of the following is an example of a biotic factor in an ecosystem?
sunlight
stream
rock
tree
2. Multiple Choice
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An organism that makes its own food is called a
producer
consumer
herbivore
cannibal
3. Multiple Choice
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The basis for the energy in an ecosystem is provided by
producers
consumer
heterotrophs
chemosynthesis
4. Multiple Choice
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Most producers get energy from the Sun using the process of
cellular respiration
chemosynthesis
photosynthesis
consumption
5. Multiple Choice
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A model that shows a single sequence of feeding relationships is called a
trophic level
feeding chain
food web
food chain
6. Multiple Choice
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Decomposers are important to ecosystems because they
return vital nutrients to the ecosystem
capture energy from the Sun
are producers
can be omnivores
7. Multiple Choice
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A food chain contains oak trees (producer), mice (herbivore), black rat snakes (carnivore), and bald eagles (carnivore). How many trophic levels does this food chain have?
one
two
three
four
8. Multiple Choice
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Food webs are models that show
one sequence of producers and consumers.
networks of feeding relationships
stored energy in food chains
a. only primary consumers in an ecosystem
9. Multiple Choice
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The water cycle, in which water moves from the atmosphere, to the surface, below ground, and back, is also called the
Carbon Cycle
Hydrologic Cycle
Biogeochemical Cycle
Atom Cycle
10. Multiple Choice
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A diagram that shows how available energy is distributed among trophic levels in an ecosystem is called a(n)
food pyrmaid
pyramid of numbers
energy pyramid
food web
11. Multiple Choice
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What is a carbon reservoir?
Stock of carbon on Earth: 1) in rocks (this includes fossil fuels), 2) dissolved in ocean water, 3) as plants, sticks, animals, and soil (which can be lumped together and called the land biosphere), and 4) as a climate-warming gas in the atmosphere.
a natural or artificial process by which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and held in solid or liquid form.