Ecology

Question 1

What is the environment

Answer 1

The environment is everything that surrounds an animal or plant (for example air, water, rocks and soil

Question 2

What is a habitat

Answer 2

The habitat is a place where a plant or animal lives

Question 3

What organisms live in a woodland habitat

Answer 3

Hedgehogs, snail, foxes, primroses, oak, ash and beach trees

Question 4

Interdependence

Answer 4

How organisms depend on each other for survival e.g. Bees need buttercups and buttercups need bees,
Hedgehogs depend on dead leaves
Birds depend on trees

Question 5

Ecosystem

Answer 5

All plant and animals in an area interacting with each other and their environment. E.g. Desert, tropical rainforest, grasslands and the seashore

Question 6

Producer

Answer 6

Plants that make their own food e.g. Grass, dandelion, nettles

Question 7

Consumer

Answer 7

Animals that get their food by eating plants or other animals

Question 8

Herbivore

Answer 8

An animal that eats plants only e.g. Rabbits, sheep, slugs and snails

Question 9

Carnivore

Answer 9

An animal that eats other animals only e.g. Foxes, hawks and ladybirds

Question 10

Omnivore

Answer 10

An animal that eats both planes and animals e.g. Badger, thrush, blackbird and human

Question 11

Food chain

Answer 11

Shows how one organism eats another and so on, must start with green plants

Question 12

Feeding levels

Answer 12

The position of an organism in the food chain is called it’s feeding level

Question 13

Food web

Answer 13

A food web is two or more interconnected food chains

Question 14

Competition

Answer 14

Competition occurs when two or more organisms seek a resource that is limited e.g. Plants compete for light, water, minerals and space. Animals compete for food, shelter, territory and mates

Question 15

Adaptations

Answer 15

Adaptations are features that give an organism a better chance of surviving in their habitat

Question 16

How are dandelions adapted to their surroundings

Answer 16

Long roots to get water and can spread their seed in the wind

Question 17

How are hedgehogs adapting to their surroundings

Answer 17

Hedgehogs have an excellent sense of smell to make them good at finding food,they have spikes to fight Of predators, and their colour makes them camouflaged

Question 18

Conservation

Answer 18

Conservation is the protection, preservation and careful use of our natural resources

Question 19

Our natural resources

Answer 19

Our natural resources include land, rivers, seas, plants and animals

Question 20

If we don’t protect these the environment could:

Answer 20

Be destroyed and plants and animals may become extinct

Question 21

Pollution

Answer 21

Pollution is adding unwanted waste builds up it may kill a certain plant or animal, the balance of nature could be damaged

Question 22

Air pollution

Answer 22

Air pollution is caused by smoke, dust and harmful gases - most of these come from cars, buses, factories and power stations

Question 23

Acid rain

Answer 23

When fossil fuels are burned they produce gases called carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, these dissolve in rainwater to form carbonic acid and sulfuric acid

Question 24

Damage the avid rain can do?

Answer 24

Dissolve/burn plants or buildings

Question 25

Soil pollution

Answer 25

Caused by pesticides, artificial fertilisers and acid rain

Question 26

Water pollution

Answer 26

Rivers,lakes and seas are polluted by fertilisers, sewage, oil and detergent

Question 27

How do we deal with waste

Answer 27

Burning the waste, this can release dangerous gases into the atmosphere, difficulties with location nobody wants to live near an incinerator

Question 28

Household waste

Answer 28

Can cause rubbish

Question 29

Landfill

Answer 29

Burying the waste in ground - damages soil, rivers and ground water, attract rodents, disease causing, bad smell, difficulties as nobody wants to live near landfill sites

Question 30

Medical waste

Answer 30

Can cause disease

Question 31

Industrial waste

Answer 31

Is toxic chemicals

Question 32

Recycling

Answer 32

Paper, glass, some metals and plastics can be processed and reused. (Made into something else).

Question 33

Nuclear waste

Answer 33

Is radioactive

Question 34

Reduce

Answer 34

Use your own bag, do not pick the items with extra packaging ( use less extra packaging )

Question 35

Pollutant

Answer 35

The actual object that you use to pollute

Question 36

What is ecology

Answer 36

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