Ecology

Question 1

What is a food chain ?

Answer 1

A sequence that shows how energy is transferred from one organism to another in an ecosystem.

Question 2

What is a food web ?

Answer 2

A network of interconnected food chains that illustrate complex feeding relationships.

Question 3

What are producers, consumers and decomposers ?

Answer 3

Producers make energy (plants) consumers eat others (animals) and decomposers breakdown dead matter (bacteria/fungi).

Question 4

What are trophic levels ?

Answer 4

Different levels in a food chain, starting with producers and ending with to predators.

Question 5

What is the carbon cycle ?

Answer 5

The cycle through which carbon is exchanged between organisms, the atmosphere, oceans and the earth