PMA 2 Review Biology UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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PMA 2 Review Biology UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Scavenger - Correct Answer- An animal that feeds on the bodies of already dead organisms.
Primary Consumer - Correct Answer- An organism that obtains energy by feeding on
producers.
Secondary Consumer - Correct Answer- An organi...
PMA 2 Review Biology UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Scavenger - Correct Answer- An animal that feeds on the bodies of already dead organisms.
Primary Consumer - Correct Answer- An organism that obtains energy by feeding on
producers.
Secondary Consumer - Correct Answer- An organism that obtains energy by feeding on
primary consumers.
Producer - Correct Answer- An organism that makes its own food.
Herbivore - Correct Answer- A plant-eating animal.
Carnivore - Correct Answer- Animal that obtains energy by eating only animals.
Decomposer - Correct Answer- Organism that obtains energy from breaking down dead
organisms.
Food Web - Correct Answer- A patterns of overlapping food chains in an environment.
Trophic Level - Correct Answer- Feeding level in an ecosystem
Energy Pyramid - Correct Answer- A diagram showing the amount of energy moving from
one trophic level to another.
Food Chains - Correct Answer- A single series of events in which one organism eats another.
Omnivore - Correct Answer- Animals that eats both plants and animals.
Sun - Correct Answer- The initial source of energy in all food chains and webs.
, Ecosystem - Correct Answer- All the communities and nonliving things in an area
Biotic Factors - Correct Answer- All the living things in an environment
Abiotic Factors - Correct Answer- All the non-living things in an environment
Biogeochemical Cycle - Correct Answer- The movement of matter within and between
ecosystems; EX: carbon cycle and water cycle
Carbon Cycle - Correct Answer- The movement of carbon from the nonliving environment
into living things and back.
Water Cycle - Correct Answer- The continual movement of water between the land, ocean,
and the air.
Biomass - Correct Answer- The total mass of all living matter in a specific area.
Detritivore - Correct Answer- An organism that specializes in breaking down dead tissues and
waste products into smaller particles.
Matter - Correct Answer- Anything that has mass and takes up space.
Heterotroph - Correct Answer- Organism that obtains energy from the foods it consumes; also
called a consumer.
Autotroph - Correct Answer- An organism that makes its own food; also called a producer.
population - Correct Answer- a group of interbreeding organisms living in the same area (all
of the deer in the forest)
succession - Correct Answer- The gradual development of a community over time
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