A Curve with a Positive but Decreasing Slope Represents a Relationship

question 71

Multiple Choice

A curve with a positive but decreasing slope represents a relationship where,every time the variable measured along the horizontal axis increases by one unit,the variable measured along the vertical axis

• A)increases by a decreasing amount.
• B)increases by an increasing amount.
• C)increases by a constant amount.
• D)does not change by much.
• E)decreases.

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Definitions:

Nonliving Environment

Refers to the abiotic components of an ecosystem, including sunlight, temperature, wind, water, and minerals.

Food Webs

Complex networks of who eats whom in an ecosystem, illustrating the flow of energy and nutrients across multiple trophic levels.

Trophic Level

A level in an ecosystem's food web characterized by organisms that share the same step in energy flow, such as primary producers or primary consumers.

Grazing Food Chain

Food chain in which energy is transferred from producers to grazers (herbivores).