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1. A (an) ____ collects energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to produce food.
a) Heterotroph
b) Herbivore
c) Detritivore
d) Autotroph
2. How do ecologists benefit from creating models?
a) Biotic factors can be ignored.
b) Random factors have a greater effect on results.
c) Abiotic factors can be ignored.
d) Variables can be more easily controlled.
3. How can detritivores be beneficial to the environment?
a) Provide food for autotrophs
b) Rid waste and dead matter
c) Allow predation to occur
d) Facilitate photosynthesis in plants
4. How is carbon released from calcium carbonate?
a) By a process of erosion
b) Burned as fossil fuels
c) By a process of diffusion
d) By decomposition
5. How would a population decrease in primary consumers affect the ecosystem?
a) Primary producers would suddenly decrease.
b) Third-level consumer population would increase.
c) Third-level consumer populations would eventually decrease.
d) There would be no overall effect.
6. The exchange of matter through the ____ is called the biogeochemical cycle.
a) Biosphere
b) Water cycle
c) Food chain
d) Phosphorus chain
7. The total mass of living matter at each trophic level is called ____.
a) Biomass
b) A food chain
c) Energy flow
d) An organic compound
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Paramecium
Colpidium
Colpidium and paramecium
Neither organism
9. This picture shows how carbon cycles through the environment. Which of the following
statements is true?
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