Eco-Warrior

Question 1

What does abiotic mean?

Answer 1

Non living

Question 2

What is ‘lux’ a measurement of?

Answer 2

Light

Question 3

What is a producer?

Answer 3

An organism that generates its own food and is eaten by other organisms. Eg, a plant

Question 4

What is a herbivore?

Answer 4

An organism that only eats herbs (plants)

Question 5

What is a carnivore?

Answer 5

An organism that only eats meat (other organisms)

Question 6

What is a omnivore?

Answer 6

An organism that eats meat and plants

Question 7

What is energy in terms of the food chain?

Answer 7

The fuel passed along the food chain

Question 8

What is a consumer

Answer 8

An organism that eats other organisms

Question 9

What is a decomposer?

Answer 9

An organism that turns dead organisms into soil and food for the producers

Question 10

What does the sun do for plants?

Answer 10

Gives energy to plants so they can photosynthesise and grow

Question 11

What is photosynthesis?

Answer 11

The process plants go through to turn the sun’s energy into food for itself

Question 12

What is a pedator?

Answer 12

A threat to an organism

Question 13

What is prey?

Answer 13

The food for a predator

Question 14

What is a food chain?

Answer 14

A SINGLE chain of what eats in an ecosystem

Question 15

What is a food web?

Answer 15

MULITIPLE food chains which show what eats what in an ecosystem

Question 16

What are the 4 classes in the food chain?

Answer 16

1. Producers
2. 1st Order Consumers
3. 2nd Order Consumers
4. Decomposers

Question 17

What is a pyramid of biomass?

Answer 17

A pyramid showing a food web that doesn’t show the actual amount of organisms in an ecosystem, but is made to look like a pyramid
[ fox ]
[ rabbit ]
[ Grass ]

Question 18

What is a pyramid of numbers?

Answer 18

A pyramid of a food web that shows the actual amount of organisms in an ecosystem, even if it doesn’t look like a pyramid [ Snake ]
[ Possums ]
[ Trees ]

Question 19

What parts are in a typical animal cell

Answer 19

Nucleus, cell membrane, and cytoplasm

Question 20

What parts are in a typical plant cell?

Answer 20

Chloroplast, cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus and vacuole

Question 21

What is the function of the nucleus in cells?

Answer 21

It is the cell’s DNA and controlling body in the cell

Question 22

What is the function of the cell membrane in cells?

Answer 22

Controls what goes in and out of the cell

Question 23

What is the function of a cell wall in cells?

Answer 23

Supports the cell and privides structure

Question 24

What is the function of cytoplasm in cells?

Answer 24

Holds and contains the organelles inside a cell

Question 25

What is the function of chlorplast in cells?

Answer 25

Performs the process of photosynthesis

Question 26

What is the function of the vacuole in cells?

Answer 26

Holds and contains nutrient and non-nutrient chemicals

Question 27

What are the 2 classes in the ‘Classifaction key to life’

Answer 27

Prokaryotes (cells with no organelles)

Eukaryotes (cells with organelles)

Question 28

What are the 2 types of prokaryotes?

Answer 28

Normal bacteria and Archae (weird bacteria)

Question 29

What are the 3 types of eukaryotes?

Answer 29

Animals, plants and fungi

Question 30

What are the 2 types of animals and fungi

Answer 30

Unicellular and multicellular organisms

Question 31

What is the chain of organisms?

Answer 31

Cells ->tissues ->organs ->organ systems ->organism

Question 32

What is the respiration equation?

Answer 32

Glucose+oxygen->carbon dioxide+water+energy

Question 33

What are the reactants of the respiratory equation?

Answer 33

Glucose and oxygen (left of the arrow)

Question 34

What are the products of the respiration equation?

Answer 34

Carbon dioxide, water and energy (right of the arrow)

Question 35

What does biotic mean?

Answer 35

Living feature