Ecology

Question 1

Ecology

Answer 1

The study of plants and animals in their environment and the relationship between them.

Question 2

Enviroment

Answer 2

The environment is everything that surrounds an animal or plant (example is air, water, rocks and soil)

Question 3

Habitat

Answer 3

The area where the place a plant and animal lives

Question 4

Types of habitats

Answer 4

Each habitat has its own community of organisms

For example hedgehogs, snails, foxes, and primroses belong to the Woodland habitat

Question 5

Interdependance

Answer 5

This is how organisms depend on each other for their survival. example: Buttercups depends on bees because bees pollinate.

Question 6

Animals depend on other animals

Answer 6

Foxes need rabbits for food
Rabbits need grass for food

Question 7

Plants depends on other plants

Answer 7

Ivy needs large trees to grow up to get light

Question 8

Ecosystem

Answer 8

All the plants and animals in an area interacting with each other and their enviroment
bigger than a habitat

Question 9

Feeding habits

Answer 9

Producer - Plants that make their own food e.g. grass, dandelion, nettles

Consumer - Animals that get their food by eating plants or other animals

Herbivore - An animal that eats plants e.g. rabbit, sheep, slug, snail

Carnivore - an animal that eats other animals e.g. fox, hawk, ladybird

Question 10

Food chain

Answer 10

A food chain snows how one organism eats another and so on

Food chains must start with green plants because they are the only things that can make food

Question 11

Feeding levels

Answer 11

The position of an organism in the food chain is called its feeding level.

the first feeding level is always a green plant

Question 12

Energy transfer in the food chain

Answer 12

The energy in any food chain comes from the sun

Plants have the most energy as they make it from the sun

Each step loses more and more energy

Question 13

A food web

Answer 13

Single food chains are rare, most are inter connected

More than one organism eats the same food source

Question 14

Competition

Answer 14

Competition occurs when two or more organisms seek a resource that is limited

Plants compete for light, water, minerals, and space

animals compete for food, shelter, territory and mates

Question 15

Adaptations

Answer 15

Adaptations are features that give an organism a better chance of surviving in their habitat

Question 16

The Dandelion

Answer 16

The dandelion has a long root which means it reaches below the short root of grass to get water

Dandelions are able to compete for space because they are able to spread their seeds in the wind

Question 17

Hedgehogs

Answer 17

Hedgehogs have an excellent sense of smell to make them good at finding food

hedghehogs have spikes to fight off predators and are camouflaged so predators cant find them easily