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What is ecology?
a) the study of living things and their environment
b) learning about money in a culture
c) a holiday in March
d) an animal that lives in the rain forest

What is the name for all living and nonliving things in an environment?
a) predator
b) abiotic factors
c) ecosystem
d) organism

What gas to plants need to produce food?
a) helium
b) carbon dioxide
c) oxygen
d) magnesium

What gas to all animals need to breathe?
a) carbon monoxide
b) nitrogen
c) helium
d) oxygen

What is an organism?
a) a living thing
b) soil and rocks
c) air and water
d) all living and non living things in an environment

What are biotic factors?
a) rocks and soil
b) plants and animals
c) sky and water
d) air and minerals

Primary means: _________
a) first
b) second
c) third
d) fourth

Tertiary means: ______
a) first
b) second
c) third
d) fourth

What are abiotic factors?
a) all living and non living things in an ecosystem
b) all living things in an ecosystem
c) all nonliving things in an ecosystem
d) all small things in an ecosystem

Secondary means: _____
a) first
b) second
c) third
d) fourth

What do we call a diagram that shows how energy moves between all organisms in an ecosystem?
a) dinner plan
b) lunch menu
c) food web
d) menu

What is a living thing that can produce its own food called?
a) producer
b) consumer
c) decomposer
d) scavenger

Quaternary means: _____
a) first
b) second
c) third
d) fourth

What is a consumer?
a) a living thing that gets its energy from another living thing
b) a plant
c) rocks and soil
d) air and water

What is a carnivore?
a) organism that gets all of its energy by consuming animals
b) organism that gets energy from both plants and animals
c) organism that makes its own food
d) organism that gets its energy by consuming plants

Where does a decomposer get its energy?
a) it makes its own food
b) dead or decaying matter
c) sun and water
d)

Where does a herbivore get its energy?
a) animals
b) makes its own
c) plants
d) dead and decaying matter

What do we call a level in a food (energy) pyramid?
a) tertiary
b) independent variable
c) food web
d) trophic level

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