Cycling of Matter and Flow of Energy 2018 cloned 3/14/2019 - Edited

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40 questions
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Which of these consumers is a herbivo

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Consumers that eat both plants and animals are called

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If a snake eats a mouse that eats grass, the snake is a(n)

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The many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up a(n)

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A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web is called a(n)

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An organism that can make its own food is called a

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Vultures, which feed on the bodies of dead organisms, are

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The first organism in a food chain is always a(n)

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Which of the following organisms on the food web shown above is a primary consumer?

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Rabbits survive on grass and other plants. What does this tell you about rabbits?

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Through what process do plants create their own energy-rich molecules (sugars)?

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Why do food webs always start with producers?

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In what way does plant nutrition differ from human nutrition? Choose the best answer.

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What is chlorophyll?

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Chlorophyll traps energy from sunlight and stores it as what kind of energy?

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As you move up the energy pyramid, the amount of energy available will

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Food webs are more realistic models than food chains because

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In most food chains, all of the energy originally comes from

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In an ecosystem, there are always more

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Where can you find carbon?

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Choose the 1 choice that correctly matches a vocabulary word with its definition

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If the population of trees were destroyed due to deforestation (removal of forest by humans) what is the most likely outcome of this food chain? Use the image above to help.

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In a marine food chain, small fish eat plankton, big fish eat small fish, and sharks eat big fish. Which organism has the smallest population?

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Photosynthetic organisms are called autotrophs. True or false?

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How do decomposers help plants and other organisms in a food chain?

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What trophic level has heterotrophs

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Matter can enter an ecosystem at any level and can leave at any level.

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Energy is constantly recycled through an ecosystem.

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How is the carbon cycle similar to the water cycle?

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How do animals add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?

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What organisms in the ocean absorb carbon dioxide?

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How does carbon become locked inside the earth?

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What can you infer from the fact that there is the same amount of water on the planet now as there was one billion years ago?

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Which type of energy is not one that comes from chemical energy after photosynthesis?

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On average, how much energy is passed from one trophic level to the next?

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Look at the food chain above. Which organism should go in the first box (top left)?

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Look at the food chain above. Which organism should go in the box at the bottom?

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Where would you likely find a chemoautotroph? Chemoautotrophs would most likely be in an ecosystem without __________________.

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Which things belong in the boxes in the image above? Select all that apply.

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Tell me something you learned for this unit but it wasn't on the test. (Or tell me more about something that was already asked on this test.)