1B - Ecosystems

Question 1

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 1

An ecosystem includes all the living and non living parts of an area

Question 2

What is a producer ?

Answer 2

uses sunlight energy to produce food

Question 3

What is a consumer?

Answer 3

gets energy by consuming other organisms

Question 4

What is a decomposer ?

Answer 4

An organism that gets its energy by breaking down dead material

Question 5

Explain the nutrient cycle?

Answer 5

Dead material decomposes , nutrients released into soil
Nutrients taken up from soil by plants
Plants die and release nutrients back into soil
repeat

Question 6

What is a food chain ?

Answer 6

A food chain shows what eats what

Question 7

What is a food web?

Answer 7

a food web shows lots of foodchains and how they overlap

Question 8

What is interdependence?

Answer 8

all the components depend on each other.

Question 9

Where is the tropical rainforest found?

Answer 9

Equator - between tropics

Question 10

in tropical rainforests it is hot and wet …

Answer 10

all year round

Question 11

Where are hot deserts typically found?

Answer 11

Found between 15. and 35. north and south of the equator

Question 12

What kind of trees are found in Rainforests?

Answer 12

Evergreen

Question 13

At the equator there is low

Answer 13

air pressure

Question 14

What is a latosol?

Answer 14

infertile soils found in rainforests

Question 15

What does stratified mean?

Answer 15

made up of layers - rainforest have layers

Question 16

What is the top layer of the rain forest ?

Answer 16

Emergent layer

Question 17

Give two characteriscts of the emergent layer ?

Answer 17

Most sunlight
Most bird species

Question 18

What is the layer underneath the emergent layer ?

Answer 18

Mid Canopy

Question 19

Give two characteriscts of the mid canopy layer?

Answer 19

Where most photosynthesis happens
most biodiverse area

Question 20

What is the layer underneath the mid canopy layer ?

Answer 20

lower canopy

Question 21

give two characteriscts of the lower canopy ?

Answer 21

Darker and thinner
Bats,Lizards , Snakes

Question 22

Plants in the shrub layer have huge leaves. Why?

Answer 22

abosorb little sunlight that comes through

Question 23

What is the bottom layer in a rainforest ?

Answer 23

Forest Floor

Question 24

What are drip tip leaves?

Answer 24

Waxy leaves that extend into a sharp point

Question 25

What is the adaptation of being waxy?

Answer 25

slippery so water moves off - so it dosent mould

Question 26

What are butress roots ?

Answer 26

Wide - long root systems so that thre tree does not collapse
Can absorb a lot of nutrients

Question 27

What is an epiphyte?

Answer 27

plants that grow on other plants - Use it to supoort

Question 28

What is our rainforest case study?

Answer 28

Malaysia

Question 29

What is the richest part of malaysia ?

Answer 29

malay peninsula

Question 30

What is the capital city?

Answer 30

Kuala Lumpur

Question 31

What is the poor side ?

Answer 31

borneo

Question 32

Southern part of Borneo is owned by

Answer 32

indonesia

Question 33

Where is the deforestation in Borneo ?

Answer 33

Sarawak

Question 34

What kind of country is malaysia?

Answer 34

NEE

Question 35

Why does agriculture cause deforestation?

Answer 35

Trees are destroyed for palm oil production.

Question 35

name one cause of deforestation in Malaysia ?

Answer 35

Economic growth

Question 36

What is mined in Malaysia ?

Answer 36

Tin