🌿 Ecology 🔬

Question 1

Define Ecosystem

Answer 1

All the living things in an area and the way they affect each other and the environment.

Question 2

Define Environment

Answer 2

The air, water, land in or on which people, animals and plants live. The conditions that affect a plant or animal in a habitat.

Question 3

Define habitat

Answer 3

The natural environment in which an animal or plant normally lives.

Question 4

Abiotic factors

Answer 4

Non-living factors in the environment.

Question 5

Biotic factors

Answer 5

Living factors in an environment/

Question 6

Define Food Chain

Answer 6

The flow of energy from organism to organism in a series of feeding relationships.

Question 7

Define Food Web

Answer 7

The relationship between all the living things in a particular area, when thinking about how the eat each other. (multiple food chains).

Question 8

Define Producer

Answer 8

An organism that is able to manufacture their own food (e.g. by the process of photosynthesis).

Question 9

Define Consumer

Answer 9

Organism that must eat other organisms to get energy and nutrients they need.

Question 10

Define Herbivore

Answer 10

Organism that consumes (eats) plants.

Question 11

Define Carnivore

Answer 11

Organism that consumes (eats) meat.

Question 12

Define Omnivore

Answer 12

Organism that consumes (eats) plants and meat.

Question 13

Define Interdependence

Answer 13

Depending on each other for survival.

Question 14

Define Predator

Answer 14

An animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals.

Question 15

Define Prey

Answer 15

An animal that is hunted and killed for food by another animal.

Question 16

Define Competition

Answer 16

A situation in which the various organisms living in the same area try to compete for a limited supply of food, water, space.

Question 17

Define Commensalism

Answer 17

A relationship between two species in which one gets an advantage from living closely with the other and the other is not affected by it.

Question 18

Define Mutualism

Answer 18

A relationship between two organisms in which they live together and benefit each other.

Question 19

Define Parasitism

Answer 19

A relationship between two organisms in which one benefits (parasite) and the other is harmed (host).

Question 20

Define Host

Answer 20

A plant or animal that another plant or animal lives on as a parasite.

Question 21

Define Parasite

Answer 21

An animal or plant that lives on or in another animal or plant of a different type and feeds from it

Question 22

Define Adaptation

Answer 22

A characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment.

Question 23

Define abiotic and biotic factors of the arctic ecosystem:

Question 24

Describe the climate of the arctic ecosystem and how it has
changed over the years:

Question 25

Identify producers/autotrophs, consumers/heterotrophs,
herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, scavengers, decomposers and
detritivores that can be found in an ecosystem:

Question 26

Outline examples of interdependence in Ecosystems:

Question 27

Analyse how changes in some biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem affect populations and/or communities:

Question 28

Explain the impact humans can have on a food web in the arctic
ecosystem:

Question 29

Describe how changes to any biotic or abiotic factor can affect
populations in the ecosystem:

Question 30

Analyse population numbers of arctic organisms:

Question 31

Outline the greenhouse effect and how global warming has
affected the arctic ecosystem:

Question 32

Analyse data that highlights the effect of global warming on the
arctic:

Question 33

Outline using examples how matter is cycled through ecosystems such
as nitrogen:

Question 34

Outline Carbons cycle and importance to the ecosystem:

Question 35

Describe how coal power stations operate from a finite resources and
link to global warming:

Question 36

Outline sustainability:

Question 37

Outline THREE alternative methods of renewable electricity generation
which could replace coal-fired power stations in Australia, including
their advantages and disadvantages:

Question 38

Discuss the link between plastic and the oceanic garbage patch:

Question 39

Discuss alternative to the current resource use; Reduce, reuse, recycle:

Question 40

Investigate an innovative way to recycle materials:

Question 41

How have aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have
developed sustainable harvesting practices and cultural protocols based on ecological understanding?