Ecology

Question 1

Define biosphere

Answer 1

Places on earth where life is found

Question 2

Define ecosystem

Answer 2

All living things plus any non-living factors

Question 3

Define community

Answer 3

All different living things

Question 4

Define condensation

Answer 4

Conversion of gas to liquid

Question 5

Define population

Answer 5

Group of same species

Question 6

Define evaporation

Answer 6

Conversion if liquid to gas

Question 7

Define biome

Answer 7

Similar climate and communities

Question 8

Define species

Answer 8

Group of living organisms that are alike and capable of exchanging genes

Question 9

Define decomposers

Answer 9

Organism that decomposes organic matter

Question 10

Define producers

Answer 10

CreTe their own food from the suns energy

Question 11

Define transpiration

Answer 11

Evaporation out of plants

Question 12

define consumers

Answer 12

Uses other existing organisms for food energy

Question 13

Define autotrophs

Answer 13

Organism that makes nutrients from inorganic substances

Question 14

Define heterotrophs

Answer 14

Organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances

Question 15

Define herbivores

Answer 15

Gets energy from plants only

Question 16

Define runoff

Answer 16

The draining away of water

Question 17

Define carnivores

Answer 17

Gets energy from meat only

Question 18

Define ecology

Answer 18

Study of interaction between different species with non-living environment

Question 19

Define omnivores

Answer 19

Gets energy from both plants and meat

Question 20

Define biomass

Answer 20

Organic matter used as fuel

Question 21

Define nitrogen fixation

Answer 21

Taking nitrogen from the atmosphere and turning it into ammonia

Question 22

Define nitrification

Answer 22

Transformation of ammonia to nitrate

Question 23

Define Denitrification

Answer 23

Nitrate reduction from atmosphere

Question 24

Define Trophic level

Answer 24

Animals that share same function in food chain

Question 25

What is a food chain?

Answer 25

Shows the flow of energy between animals and plants

Question 26

What is a food web?

Answer 26

Shows who eats what

Question 27

Why does only 10% of the energy make it to the next trophic level?

Answer 27

The other 90% is used when it dies and gives off heat and waste.

Question 28

What is each part of the water cycle?

Answer 28

Precipitation, runoff, evaporation/transpiration, condensation then back to precipitation

Question 29

What is each part of the carbon cycle?

Answer 29

Producers and consumers produce CO2 through cellular respiration, then when they die they become decomposers which become fossil fuels which then produce CO2

Question 30

Why is nitrogen needed by living things?

Answer 30

Nitrogen is a part of amino acids and amino acids make protein which provides structure and enzymes so without nitrogen we wouldn’t have any of those things.