Chapter 2 for the Science text book

Question 1

How is the sun’s energy passed along an ecosystem?

Answer 1

Energy is passed between organisms through the food chain

Question 2

How are food webs on land and in the

water similar? How are they different?

Answer 2

How are food webs on land and in the

water similar? How are they different?

Question 3

There is less energy available to consumers at higher levels in a food why?

Answer 3

There is less energy available to consumers at higher levels in a food why?

Question 4

What is organic matter?

Answer 4

Organica matter is a matter that has come from a recently living organism

Question 5

What is the recycling of matter?

Answer 5

Matter cycling is where matter moves from one form to another or from one place to another on the earth, and inside its ecosystems

Question 6

What factors affect the populations in an ecosystem?

Answer 6

One factor that can affect the populations in an ecosystem is

that, if an ecosystem had owls with no predators, the owl

the population would increase and eat all the mice in the ecosystems.

The population of the mice would decrease more an