Ecology

Question 1

What is ecology

Answer 1

Ecology is the study of plants animals and there environment and the relationship between them

Question 2

What is the environment

Answer 2

Is everything that surrounds an animal or plant (water rock air.soil)

Question 3

What is a habitat

Answer 3

Is the place where a plant or animal lives

Question 4

Woodland habitat

Answer 4

Each habitat has is own community of organisms ( hedgehogs snails foxes and primrose belong to the woodland habitat)

Question 5

What’s in a see side habitat

Answer 5

Shrimp seaweed star fish fish

Question 6

What type animals would Live in a pond land

Answer 6

Duck

Question 7

What is interdependence

Answer 7

Animals and plants in a habitat depend on each other for food shelter and pollination for survival eg buttercups depends on bees and bees need butter cups

Question 8

What is the ecosystem

Answer 8

Ecosystem is bigger then a habitat all plants and animals in one place interacting with each other and there environment eg dessert and seashore rainforest

Question 9

Producer

Answer 9

Plants make there own food eg grass dandelion

Question 10

Consumer

Answer 10

Animals that get there food by eating plants or other animals

Question 11

Herbivores

Answer 11

Animals that only eat plants eg rabbits

Question 12

Carnivores

Answer 12

Animals that only eat meat eg lady bug fox

Question 13

Omnivore

Answer 13

Animals that eat both plants and animals eg badgers humans birds

Question 14

Decomposer

Answer 14

Feed on dead plants and animals eg worms

Question 15

Food chain

Answer 15

A food chain shows how one organisms eats another must start with green plants because they are the only things that can make food

Question 16

Feeding levels

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Energy transfer in food chane

Answer 17

Comes from sun plant have the most energy they make it from the sun

Question 18

Food web

Answer 18

Single food chanes are rare most are interconnected

Question 19

Competition

Answer 19

Occurs when 2 or more organisms seek a resource that’s limited

Question 20

Plants competition

Answer 20

For water minerals and space

Question 21

Animals competition

Answer 21

For food shelter mates

Question 22

Adaptations

Answer 22

Are features given an organism a better chance of survival in their habitat

Question 23

Dandelion

Answer 23

Has along root reaches short roots
Of grass to get water

Question 24

Hedgehog

Answer 24

Have an excellent sense of smell make them good at finding food , have spikes to fight of other animals,and camouflage

Question 25

Pollution

Answer 25

Air pollution caused by smoke and harmful gasses

Question 26

Soil pollution

Answer 26

Is causes by pesticides artificial fertilisers and acid rain

Question 27

Water pollution

Answer 27

Rivers lakes and seas are polluted by fertilisers sewage oil and detergents

Question 28

Incineration

Answer 28

Burning the waste releases dangerous gasses into the atmosphere nobody wants to live near an incinerator

Question 29

Landfill

Answer 29

Burying waste in ground damages soil rivers and ground water attracts rodents bad smell disease and nobody wants to live near it

Question 30

Recycling

Answer 30

Paper glass some metals and plastic can be prossesed and reusable

Question 31

Reduce reuse recycle

Answer 31

Reduce means uses your own bag when shopping of buy fruit loss without the packaging