Ecology

Question 1

What is a consumer?

Answer 1

Eats other organisms for energy?

Question 2

What is a herbivore?

Answer 2

A plant eater, only eats plants.

Question 3

What is a carnivore?

Answer 3

A meat eater, only eats meat.

Question 4

What is an omnivore?

Answer 4

A plant and meat eater.

Question 5

What is a predator?

Answer 5

At the top of the food chain. Hunts their prey.

Question 6

What is prey?

Answer 6

The animals that are hunted by their predators.

Question 7

Ecosystem?

Answer 7

The habitat and organisms that live there.

Question 8

Community?

Answer 8

The living things that live and function in a certain place.

Question 9

Population?

Answer 9

The count of how many things live there.

Question 10

Biotic factor?

Answer 10

Things that are alive (plants and animals)

Question 11

Abiotic factor?

Answer 11

Things that are not living (rocks, water temperature, moisture)

Question 12

Ecological niche?

Answer 12

Their specific role in that habitat.

Question 13

Carbon cycle?

Answer 13

The cycle of carbon in the air, plant and animals

Question 14

Decomposition?

Answer 14

The process of dead material breaking down into simple substances.

Question 15

Food chain?

Answer 15

The order of which animals live/eat by.

Question 16

What are three features that help a leopard seal survive?

Answer 16

• Blubber to keep them warm
• Whiskers for detecting
• Body shape designed for swimming

Question 17

What’s behavioral adaption?

Answer 17

The adaption an organism makes to its behavioral habits to help it survive.

Question 18

Physical Adaptions?

Answer 18

An adaption an organism makes to its physical appearance or structure to help it survive.

Question 19

Food and plants have…

Answer 19

Carbon

Question 20

The carbon cycle.

Answer 20

Atmosphere (CO2)◀️ Respiration (animals create and goes into atmosphere)◀️ Animals (Die and decay)◀️ Glucose feeding (animals eat glucose made plants) ◀️ Plants (45% carbon from atmosphere)

Question 21

Define decomposition?

Answer 21

Decomposition is the matter that is being broken down into different substances. This takes place on food, plants, and dead animals.

Question 22

How does decomposition occur?

Answer 22

Leaves fall off trees and get decomposed.
Insects and fungi help decomposition.
Broken down into mineral salts, water and co2.
Mineral salts are returned to the soil and co2 to the air.

Question 23

Name some decomposes?

Answer 23

Wood lice, millipedes, earthworms, lavas and bacteria. Termites help speed up the process. Fungi eats the dead plant matter. Crabs and sand hoppers too (feed on dead fish)

Question 24

What is an impact humans have on the enviroment?

Answer 24

Oil spills, air pollution from factories and cars, chopping trees down, dumping waste

Question 25

How can our impact on the environment be stopped?

Answer 25

Trees cut down in small numbers and re-grown, filters on factory chimneys, walk, create less waste.

Question 26

Causes of global warming?

Answer 26

Burning fossil fuels, industry and forestry.

Question 27

How does global warming occur?

Answer 27

Carbon accumulates and overloads our atmosphere, this is the greenhouse effect, where the sun rays become trapped in our atmosphere by the greenhouse gases making the temperature rise.

Question 28

MES GREN?

Answer 28

``` Movement Respiration Sensitivity Growth Reproduction Excretion Nutrition ```

Question 29

What are producers?

Answer 29

The first link in the food chain. Make their own food by photosynthesis.