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What are the disadvantages of biological control?
Predator might not eat pest. May eat useful species. Predators population may increase and get out of control. Predator might not stay in area it is needed.
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How can farmers use herbicides to intensively farm?
To kill weeds. This means more of Suns energy falling on fields goes to crops and not other competing plants that aren’t wanted.
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What does turgid mean?
When a plant cell is well watered and plump or swollen.
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Temperature - warmer decays faster due to speeding up respiration in microorganism so. Amount of water - faster when moist. Amount of oxygen - decay faster when available, micro organisms need to respire aerobically.
What three things does the rate of decay depend on?
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How and why do the stomata open and close automatically?
Close when water supply in roots dries up. Guard cells have special kidney shape which closes/opens when guard cells become flaccid/turgid. Thin outer walls and thick inner walls makes function properly. Open allows gases for photosynthesis. Sensitive to light - open in day, close night to conserve water
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Lots of fertilisers need to be added. No soil to anchor roots and support plant.
What are the disadvantages of hydroponics?
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What does crenation mean?
If a cell loses too much water it completely shrivells up.
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What happens to the rate of decay at optimum conditions?
Microorganisms grow and reproduce faster meaning there’ll be more of them to decay organisms.
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Populations of different species in a habitat
What is the community?
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Gradual change in distribution of species across a habitat.
What is zonation?
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What is zonation?
Gradual change in distribution of species across a habitat.
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What is the population?
All organisms of one species in a habitat
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What is biodiversity?
A measure of variety of life in an area.
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Describe a stem cross section…
Stems need to resist bending. The xylem forms a sort of ‘scaffolding’. Phloem is always around outside of stem.
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Using living things instead of chemicals to control a pest.
What is biological control?
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Increased light intensity, increased temperature, increased air movement, decrease in air humidity.
What 4 factors increase transpiration?
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How does adding sugar or salt reduce the rate of decay?
If there’s a high concentration of salt or sugar around decomposers they’ll lose water by osmosis. This damages them and mean they can’t work properly. Things like tuna and olives are often stored in brine.
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To help enzymes needed for photosynthesis and respiration. If there’s not enough potassium in soil, plants have poor flowers/fruit growth and discoloured leaves.
What is potassium useful for in plants?
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What are the benefits of transpiration?
Constant stream of water keeps plant cool. Provides constant supply of water for photosynthesis. Water creates turgor pressure which helps to support it. Minerals can be brought in.
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What is potassium useful for in plants?
To help enzymes needed for photosynthesis and respiration. If there’s not enough potassium in soil, plants have poor flowers/fruit growth and discoloured leaves.
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Why do plants need magnesium?
Magnesium is one of most significant (but not in biggest amounts). Required for making chlorophyll for photosynthesis. Plants without enough magnesium have yellow leaves
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Food lasts longer in freezer because decomposers can’t reproduce at all at such low temperatures.
How does freezing reduce the rate of decay?
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What do Xylem Vessels do?
Carry water and minerals from roots up shoot to leaves in transpiration stream.
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Loss of water from a plant.
What is transpiration?
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What controls the stomata and when they open/close?
Guard cells
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Magnesium is one of most significant (but not in biggest amounts). Required for making chlorophyll for photosynthesis. Plants without enough magnesium have yellow leaves
Why do plants need magnesium?
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Close when water supply in roots dries up. Guard cells have special kidney shape which closes/opens when guard cells become flaccid/turgid. Thin outer walls and thick inner walls makes function properly. Open allows gases for photosynthesis. Sensitive to light - open in day, close night to conserve water
How and why do the stomata open and close automatically?
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Making cell walls
What is cellulose used for?
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Square frame allows you to study a small area and scale up findings to make an estimate for a larger area.
What is a quadrat used for?
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Why are organic fertilisers used?
Recycles nutrients left in plants and animal waste. Doesn’t work as well as artificial fertiliser but better for environment.
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Physically removing weeds rather than spraying herbicide. More labour intensive but no chemicals involved.
How does weeding help organic farmers?
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What methods are used to reduce the rate of decay?
Canning, cooling, freezing, drying, adding salt/sugar, and adding vinegar.
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Upper epidermis, palisade mesophyll layer, spongy mesophyll layer and lower epidermis
What are the four layers in a leaf?
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Number of 1st sample x number in 2nd sample ÷ number in 2nd sample previously marked
How do you calculate population size?
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Guard cells
What controls the stomata and when they open/close?
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What are the advantages of hydroponics?
Mineral levels can be controlled more accurately. Disease can be controlled more effectively.
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Woodlands and lakes
Give two examples of natural eco systems…
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Another method of intensive farming where plants are grown in nutrient solutions instead of soil. Often used to grow glasshouse tomatoes on commercial scale, as well as grow plants in areas with barren soil.
What is hydroponics?
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No changes in population size due to deaths, immigration or emigration. Sampling method was set up same way each time. Markings haven’t affected animal’s chance of survival.
What assumptions have to be made when using capture and recapture?
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What are the advantages of biological control?
No chemicals used, so less pollution, disruption to food chains and risk to people. No need to keep repeating treatment.
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What assumptions have to be made when using capture and recapture?
No changes in population size due to deaths, immigration or emigration. Sampling method was set up same way each time. Markings haven’t affected animal’s chance of survival.
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What is active transport?
Uses energy from respiration to help plant pull minerals into root hair against concentration gradient - from low concentrations to high concentrations.
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Growing crops in cycle. Stops pest and diseases for one crop building up - stops nutrients running out. Most crop rotations include nitrogen fixing crop like legumes - put nitrates back into soil.
What is crop rotation in organic farming?
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How does cooling reduce the rate of decay?
Putting food in a fridge slows down decay because it slows decomposers’ reproduction rate.
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What is a plasmolysed cell?
If plant is short of water, cytoplasm starts to shrink and membrane pulls away from cell wall - but inelastic cell wall keeps things in position, just droops a bit.
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What three things does the rate of decay depend on?
Temperature - warmer decays faster due to speeding up respiration in microorganism so. Amount of water - faster when moist. Amount of oxygen - decay faster when available, micro organisms need to respire aerobically.
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What does Flaccid mean?
When a plant doesn’t get enough water from soil, plant begins to wilt because turgid pressure no longer there.
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Give two examples of natural eco systems…
Woodlands and lakes
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Feed on dead and decaying material (detritus). Examples include earthworms, maggots, and wood lice. As these feed on decaying material, they break it up into smaller pieces to give a bigger surface area to speed up decay.
What are detritivores?
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What is the term for non-living conditions?
Abiotic
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Abiotic
What is the term for non-living conditions?
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How is a disease used in biological control?
Myxomatosis - disease which kills rabbits. Myxoma virus released in Australia as biological control when rabbit population grew out of control and ruined crops.
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For storing in seeds
What are lipids used for?
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What happens in transpiration?
Caused by evaporation and diffusion of water vapour inside leaves. Creates shortage of water in leaf so more water is drawn up through xylem vessels. More water is drawn up through roots so there is a constant transpiration stream through plant.
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What are detritivores?
Feed on dead and decaying material (detritus). Examples include earthworms, maggots, and wood lice. As these feed on decaying material, they break it up into smaller pieces to give a bigger surface area to speed up decay.
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Organic farmers use less chemicals. Better for environment, less chance of river pollution - no use of pesticides = less wildlife harm. To be classed as organic it needs to follow ethical treatment of animals. No battery farming.
What are the advantages of organic farming?
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They let carbon dioxide out and oxygen in, whilst also allowing water to escape (transpiration).
How does having stomata adapt a plant for photosynthesis?
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Transport food - mainly sugars - both up and down stem to growing and storing tissues - movement is known as translocation.
What do phloem tubes do?
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Vinegar is acidic ad acid kills decomposers.
How does adding vinegar reduce the rate of decay?
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Describe a root cross section…
Roots have to resist crushing as they push through soil. Xylem in centre to give it strength.
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Predator might not eat pest. May eat useful species. Predators population may increase and get out of control. Predator might not stay in area it is needed.
What are the disadvantages of biological control?
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What are saprophytes?
Feed on decaying material by extracellular digestion which means they excrete digestive enzymes on material outside their cells. Enzyme breaks down material into smaller bits which can be absorbed by saprophyte. Many are fungi.
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Why is glucose turned into starch?
It can’t dissolve and move away from storage areas in solution. It doesn’t affect water concentration inside cells - soluble substances would bloat storage cells by drawing in water.
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A measure of variety of life in an area.
What is biodiversity?
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Canning, cooling, freezing, drying, adding salt/sugar, and adding vinegar.
What methods are used to reduce the rate of decay?
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What 3 main minerals do plants need?
Nitrates, phosphates and potassium (magnesium in small doses)
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Respiration, converts it into cellulose, starch, lipids and it is combined with nitrates to make proteins.
What do plants use glucose for?
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Large surface area allows gases to diffuse
How does being broad adapt a plant for photosynthesis?
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Sowing seeds later or earlier in season will avoid major pests for that crop. Farmers won’t need to use pesticides.
How does varying seed plant times help organic farming?
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All organisms of one species in a habitat
What is the population?
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How can farmers use pesticides to intensively farm?
Kills insects that eat crop. This makes sure no energy is transferred into a different food chain. It’s all saved for growing crops.
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Roots have to resist crushing as they push through soil. Xylem in centre to give it strength.
Describe a root cross section…
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What is biological control?
Using living things instead of chemicals to control a pest.
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Putting food in a fridge slows down decay because it slows decomposers’ reproduction rate.
How does cooling reduce the rate of decay?
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All organisms living in a particular area as well as non-living conditions such as temperature, salinity and soil quality.
What is an eco system?
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How can capture and recapture be used to estimate population size?
Capture a sample of population, mark animals harmlessly and release them. Recapture another sample and count how many have marks. Estimate population size using equation.
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How do you calculate population size?
Number of 1st sample x number in 2nd sample ÷ number in 2nd sample previously marked
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Carry water and minerals from roots up shoot to leaves in transpiration stream.
What do Xylem Vessels do?
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What does lysis mean?
If an animal cell takes in too much water it bursts.
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Animals are kept close together indoors in small pens so they are warm and can’t move about. Saves them wasting energy as they move around, and stops them using up so much energy keeping warm.
How can farmers use battery farming to intensively farm?
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Myxomatosis - disease which kills rabbits. Myxoma virus released in Australia as biological control when rabbit population grew out of control and ruined crops.
How is a disease used in biological control?
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How does drying reduce the rate of decay?
Dried food lasts longer because decomposers need water to carry out cell reactions. Lots of fruits are preserved by drying them out, and sometimes meat is too.
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To kill weeds. This means more of Suns energy falling on fields goes to crops and not other competing plants that aren’t wanted.
How can farmers use herbicides to intensively farm?
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What do plants use glucose for?
Respiration, converts it into cellulose, starch, lipids and it is combined with nitrates to make proteins.
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How does being thin adapt a plant for photosynthesis?
Carbon dioxide and water vapour only have to diffuse a short distance to reach photosynthesising cells.
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Certain types of wasps and flies produce larvae which develop on/inside host insect. Eventually kills insect host. Lots of insects have parasites like this.
How is a parasite used in biological control?
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Kills insects that eat crop. This makes sure no energy is transferred into a different food chain. It’s all saved for growing crops.
How can farmers use pesticides to intensively farm?
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It can’t dissolve and move away from storage areas in solution. It doesn’t affect water concentration inside cells - soluble substances would bloat storage cells by drawing in water.
Why is glucose turned into starch?
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How does having air spaces benefit a leaf for photosynthesis?
In spongy mesophyll layer and allow gases like carbon dioxide and oxygen to move between stomata and photosynthesising cells. Means there is a larger surface area for gas exchange - big internal surface area to volume ratio.
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Contain nitrogen for making amino acids and proteins. Needed for cell growth. If a plant can’t get enough nitrates, its growth will be poor and it will have yellow older leaves.
Why are nitrates useful for plants?
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Why does having guard cells adapt a plant for photosynthesis?
They surround stomata and control when they open and close. This allows guard cells to control gas exchange.
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Needed for respiration and growth. Contain phosphorous for making DNA and cell membranes. Plants without enough phosphate have poor root growth and discoloured older leaves.
What are phosphates useful for in plants?
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Trying to produce as much food as possible from land, animals and plants.
What is intensive farming?
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When a plant doesn’t get enough water from soil, plant begins to wilt because turgid pressure no longer there.
What does Flaccid mean?
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How does weeding help organic farmers?
Physically removing weeds rather than spraying herbicide. More labour intensive but no chemicals involved.
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Mineral levels can be controlled more accurately. Disease can be controlled more effectively.
What are the advantages of hydroponics?
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Nitrates, phosphates and potassium (magnesium in small doses)
What 3 main minerals do plants need?
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They surround stomata and control when they open and close. This allows guard cells to control gas exchange.
Why does having guard cells adapt a plant for photosynthesis?
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What are the disadvantages of hydroponics?
Lots of fertilisers need to be added. No soil to anchor roots and support plant.
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What is transpiration?
Loss of water from a plant.
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What are the main effects of intensive farming?
1) removal of hedges destroys natural habitat and can lead to soil erosion. 2) fertilisers can cause eutrophication 3) pesticides disturb food chain 4) people believe it is cruel to animals.
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If an animal cell takes in too much water it bursts.
What does lysis mean?
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How does being broad adapt a plant for photosynthesis?
Large surface area allows gases to diffuse
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What is the word equation for respiration?
glucose + oxygen → carbon dioxide + water
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Microorganisms grow and reproduce faster meaning there’ll be more of them to decay organisms.
What happens to the rate of decay at optimum conditions?
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What is osmosis?
Net movement of water molecules across a partially permeable membrane from a region of higher water concentration to a region of lower water concentration.
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What is intensive farming?
Trying to produce as much food as possible from land, animals and plants.
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How is a parasite used in biological control?
Certain types of wasps and flies produce larvae which develop on/inside host insect. Eventually kills insect host. Lots of insects have parasites like this.
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glucose + oxygen → carbon dioxide + water
What is the word equation for respiration?
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By osmosis - root cells grow ‘hairs’ which stick out into soil. Microscopic hairs give plant a large surface area for absorbing water. Usually a high concentration of water in soil so water is drawn in.
How do root hairs take in water?
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Dried food lasts longer because decomposers need water to carry out cell reactions. Lots of fruits are preserved by drying them out, and sometimes meat is too.
How does drying reduce the rate of decay?
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What are phosphates useful for in plants?
Needed for respiration and growth. Contain phosphorous for making DNA and cell membranes. Plants without enough phosphate have poor root growth and discoloured older leaves.
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What adaptations do plants have to reduce water loss?
Waxy cuticle covering upper epidermis, helps make upper side waterproof. Stomata found on lower surface where it’s darker/cooler - slows diffusion. Bigger/more stomata = more water lost so in hot climates have fewer and smaller stomata.
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How can farmers use battery farming to intensively farm?
Animals are kept close together indoors in small pens so they are warm and can’t move about. Saves them wasting energy as they move around, and stops them using up so much energy keeping warm.
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carbon dioxide + water → glucose + oxygen 6CO₂ + 6H₂O → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂
What are the equations for photosynthesis?
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If animal doesn’t change its prey due to a food shortage, at risk of bio accumulation with pesticide as quantities increase up food chain.
How do pesticides disturb food chains?
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Waxy cuticle covering upper epidermis, helps make upper side waterproof. Stomata found on lower surface where it’s darker/cooler - slows diffusion. Bigger/more stomata = more water lost so in hot climates have fewer and smaller stomata.
What adaptations do plants have to reduce water loss?
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If there’s a high concentration of salt or sugar around decomposers they’ll lose water by osmosis. This damages them and mean they can’t work properly. Things like tuna and olives are often stored in brine.
How does adding sugar or salt reduce the rate of decay?
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Recycles nutrients left in plants and animal waste. Doesn’t work as well as artificial fertiliser but better for environment.
Why are organic fertilisers used?
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What are the four layers in a leaf?
Upper epidermis, palisade mesophyll layer, spongy mesophyll layer and lower epidermis
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Carbon dioxide and water vapour only have to diffuse a short distance to reach photosynthesising cells.
How does being thin adapt a plant for photosynthesis?
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What do phloem tubes do?
Transport food - mainly sugars - both up and down stem to growing and storing tissues - movement is known as translocation.
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How does having stomata adapt a plant for photosynthesis?
They let carbon dioxide out and oxygen in, whilst also allowing water to escape (transpiration).
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Using active transport. Root hairs give a big surface area but concentration of minerals in soil is low. Normal diffusion doesn’t happen but active transport does.
How do root hairs take in minerals?
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What is crop rotation in organic farming?
Growing crops in cycle. Stops pest and diseases for one crop building up - stops nutrients running out. Most crop rotations include nitrogen fixing crop like legumes - put nitrates back into soil.
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E.g. Aphids are pest - eat vegetables and roses. Ladybirds predate aphids so people release them on fields and gardens to keep numbers down.
How is a predator used in biological control?
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No chemicals used, so less pollution, disruption to food chains and risk to people. No need to keep repeating treatment.
What are the advantages of biological control?
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Net movement of water molecules across a partially permeable membrane from a region of higher water concentration to a region of lower water concentration.
What is osmosis?
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In spongy mesophyll layer and allow gases like carbon dioxide and oxygen to move between stomata and photosynthesising cells. Means there is a larger surface area for gas exchange - big internal surface area to volume ratio.
How does having air spaces benefit a leaf for photosynthesis?
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How is a predator used in biological control?
E.g. Aphids are pest - eat vegetables and roses. Ladybirds predate aphids so people release them on fields and gardens to keep numbers down.
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Feed on decaying material by extracellular digestion which means they excrete digestive enzymes on material outside their cells. Enzyme breaks down material into smaller bits which can be absorbed by saprophyte. Many are fungi.
What are saprophytes?
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How does varying seed plant times help organic farming?
Sowing seeds later or earlier in season will avoid major pests for that crop. Farmers won’t need to use pesticides.
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1) removal of hedges destroys natural habitat and can lead to soil erosion. 2) fertilisers can cause eutrophication 3) pesticides disturb food chain 4) people believe it is cruel to animals.
What are the main effects of intensive farming?
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What is a quadrat used for?
Square frame allows you to study a small area and scale up findings to make an estimate for a larger area.
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What are the advantages of organic farming?
Organic farmers use less chemicals. Better for environment, less chance of river pollution - no use of pesticides = less wildlife harm. To be classed as organic it needs to follow ethical treatment of animals. No battery farming.
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How do root hairs take in minerals?
Using active transport. Root hairs give a big surface area but concentration of minerals in soil is low. Normal diffusion doesn’t happen but active transport does.
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What is the community?
Populations of different species in a habitat
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Capture a sample of population, mark animals harmlessly and release them. Recapture another sample and count how many have marks. Estimate population size using equation.
How can capture and recapture be used to estimate population size?
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How do root hairs take in water?
By osmosis - root cells grow ‘hairs’ which stick out into soil. Microscopic hairs give plant a large surface area for absorbing water. Usually a high concentration of water in soil so water is drawn in.
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What is cellulose used for?
Making cell walls
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Why are nitrates useful for plants?
Contain nitrogen for making amino acids and proteins. Needed for cell growth. If a plant can’t get enough nitrates, its growth will be poor and it will have yellow older leaves.
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How do pesticides disturb food chains?
If animal doesn’t change its prey due to a food shortage, at risk of bio accumulation with pesticide as quantities increase up food chain.
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If plant is short of water, cytoplasm starts to shrink and membrane pulls away from cell wall - but inelastic cell wall keeps things in position, just droops a bit.
What is a plasmolysed cell?
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What are the equations for photosynthesis?
carbon dioxide + water → glucose + oxygen 6CO₂ + 6H₂O → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂
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Caused by evaporation and diffusion of water vapour inside leaves. Creates shortage of water in leaf so more water is drawn up through xylem vessels. More water is drawn up through roots so there is a constant transpiration stream through plant.
What happens in transpiration?
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Uses energy from respiration to help plant pull minerals into root hair against concentration gradient - from low concentrations to high concentrations.
What is active transport?
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What 4 factors increase transpiration?
Increased light intensity, increased temperature, increased air movement, decrease in air humidity.
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How does freezing reduce the rate of decay?
Food lasts longer in freezer because decomposers can’t reproduce at all at such low temperatures.
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How does canning reduce the rate of decay?
Food in an airtight can keeps decomposers out.
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What is hydroponics?
Another method of intensive farming where plants are grown in nutrient solutions instead of soil. Often used to grow glasshouse tomatoes on commercial scale, as well as grow plants in areas with barren soil.
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What are lipids used for?
For storing in seeds
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Describe a leaf cross section…
In a leaf xylem and phloem together make up a network of veins. These are needed to support leaves.
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When a plant cell is well watered and plump or swollen.
What does turgid mean?
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What is an eco system?
All organisms living in a particular area as well as non-living conditions such as temperature, salinity and soil quality.
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Constant stream of water keeps plant cool. Provides constant supply of water for photosynthesis. Water creates turgor pressure which helps to support it. Minerals can be brought in.
What are the benefits of transpiration?
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How does adding vinegar reduce the rate of decay?
Vinegar is acidic ad acid kills decomposers.
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Food in an airtight can keeps decomposers out.
How does canning reduce the rate of decay?
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In a leaf xylem and phloem together make up a network of veins. These are needed to support leaves.
Describe a leaf cross section…
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If a cell loses too much water it completely shrivells up.
What does crenation mean?
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Net movement of particles from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.
What is diffusion?
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Stems need to resist bending. The xylem forms a sort of ‘scaffolding’. Phloem is always around outside of stem.
Describe a stem cross section…
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What is diffusion?
Net movement of particles from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.
