Ecology

Question 1

Ecology

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Is the study of plants and animals and their envirnment and the relationship between them

Question 2

Environment

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Is everything that surrounds an animal or plant (for example air water rocks and soil

Question 3

Habitat

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Is the place where a plant or animal lives

Question 4

Community

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Each habitat has its own community of organisms . Community is all the different populations that live in that habitat e.g hedghogs snails, foxes and primroses would all live in a woodland habitat

Question 5

Interdependence

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Animals and plants in a habitat depend on each other for things like food, shelter and pollination

Interdependence is how organisms depend on each otger for their survival

Butter cups and bees depend on each other

Question 6

Ecosystem

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All the plants and animals in ana area interacting with each other and their enviornment E.g desert, tropical rainforest, grasslands, seashore

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Biome

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An ecosystem that extends over a very large area called a biome e.g rainforest

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Biosphere

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All of earths biomes make one big biosphere

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Producer

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Plants that makd their own food e.g grass dandalion nettles

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Consumer

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Animals that get their food by eating plants or other animals

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Decomposer

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Organisms that feed on dead plants and animals e.g earthworms bacteria, fungi

Question 12

Food chain

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Shows how one orginism eats another and so on, food chains must start with green plants because they are the only things that can make their own food

Question 13

Feeding level

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The position of an organism in the food chain

The amount of energy gets less and less the further up in the foodchain you get

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Food web

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Is two or more interconnected food chains

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Competition

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Occurs when two or more organisms seek a resource thats limited

Plants compete for light, water, minerals and space

Animals compete for food territory shelter and mates

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Adaptations

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

Question 17

Dandelion adaptation

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The dandelion has a long root which means it reaches below the short root of grass to get water

Dandelions are able to compete for space because they can spread theyre seeds throught the wind

Question 18

Hedgehog adaptations

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Hedghogs have a good sense of smell for finding food and have spikes to help fight of predetors

Theyre brown colour helps them camaflouge into leaves

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Habitat study

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Examples of habitat are woodland, pond and hedgrow habits

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Abiotic factors

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Are non living e.g weather (tempeture, light, intensity, rainfall, wind ) soil and landscape

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Biotic factors

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Are living e.g competition, predation, symbiosis.

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Predation

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Controls rhe number of organisms in an ecosystem e.g ladybirds eat aphids, lions eat zebra

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Symbiosis

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Is a relationship between organisms of different at least one benifits e.g cleaner fish eat parisites out of the mouths of eels