Discovering Outdoor Environments

Question 1

Ecosystem

Answer 1

A biological community of interacting organisms and their environment

Question 2

Renewable energy

Answer 2

Energy from a source that is not deplete when used, such as wind or solar power

Question 3

Migration

Answer 3

Seasonal movement of animals from one region to another

Question 4

Fossil fuels

Answer 4

A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms

Question 5

Biotic factors

Answer 5

Include the living parts of an ecosystem such as plants and animals

Question 6

Abiotic factors

Answer 6

Are environmental components that are not living

Question 7

Organism

Answer 7

An individual animal, plant or single celled life form

Question 8

Species

Answer 8

Organisms capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding

Question 9

Population

Answer 9

All the inhabitants of a particular place

Question 10

Community

Answer 10

A group of organisms living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common

Question 11

Atmosphere

Answer 11

The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet

Question 12

Fire stick farming

Answer 12

When indigenous Australians use fire to burn vegetation change the composition of plant and animal species in an area

Question 13

Food web

Answer 13

Consists of many food chains, showing how plants and animals are interconnected by different paths

Question 14

Food chain

Answer 14

Follows a single path as animals eat each other

Question 15

Producers

Answer 15

manufacture complex inorganic substances

Question 16

Consumers

Answer 16

Organisms, that obtain nutrients from other organisms

Question 17

Decomposers

Answer 17

Breakdown organic to supply themselves with energy

Question 18

Primary succession

Answer 18

The change that occurs in a area where no soil existed

E.g. Ice melting to expose bare rock

Question 19

Secondary succession

Answer 19

Occurs when a developed ecosystem gets disturbed by natural disasters
E.g. fires burning down trees

Question 20

John glover

Answer 20

Was one of the precursors of an Australian style of painting. He arrived in Tasmania from England, his depiction of the Tasmanian light was bright and clear, was a departure from his European paintings and gave his paintings a true Australian quality. This can change our view on outdoor environments due to depicting a incorrect view of a environment

Question 21

Artistic understanding

Answer 21

Refers to how outdoor environments were depicted by artists overtime

Question 22

Indigenous relationships with outdoor environments

Answer 22

• Spiritual connection with the land
• Land as mother
• They are related to and are apart of the land

Question 23

Consequence of removing a component from the ecosystem

Answer 23

If one species in the ecosystem ceases to exist, on or more members in the rest of the chain could cease to exist too due to one or more organism not having a food source.

Question 24

Drought

Answer 24

Short term effects:
-plants starting to die due to lack of water
-Decline in volume of water streams and rivers
-Crop growth is decreased sue to lack of irrigation
Long term effects:
-Can cause sudden sinking of the earths surface
-Seawater intrusion