Ecosystem key terms

Question 1

What is a community of species which live together in the same environment?

Answer 1

Ecosystem

Question 2

What is a measure of the weather over a long period of time?

Answer 2

Climate

Question 3

What is an area of the same environment e.g. forest, tundra?

Answer 3

Biome

Question 4

What are the lines going up and down on a geographical map?

Answer 4

Latitude

Question 5

What does it mean to be at or near to the equator?

Answer 5

Equatorial

Question 6

What is any kind of moisture which falls to the ground e.g. rain,sleet,snow?

Answer 6

Precipitation

Question 7

What is the difference between the elevation at two points of the earth?

Answer 7

Relief

Question 8

What is a type of biome with tall, broad and dense trees with a high amount of annual rainfall?

Answer 8

Tropical rainforest

Question 9

What are the tallest trees in a tropical rainforest?

Answer 9

Emergents

Question 10

What is the plant in a tropical rainforest which is easy to climb and hangs down from trees?

Answer 10

Lianas

Question 11

What are large roots in the side of a narrowly rooted tree. They balance the tree and gather nutrients from the soil in the tropical rainforest?

Answer 11

Buttress roots

Question 12

What is the layer in a tropical rainforest just below the emergent layer. It is home to many insects and animals?

Answer 12

Canopy

Question 13

What is the type of rainfall where water vapour rises. It cools and forms a cloud and then rains?

Answer 13

Conventional rainfall

Question 14

What is the action of clearing a wide area of trees?

Answer 14

Deforestation

Question 15

What is the organic component of soil, formed by the decomposition of leaves and other plant material by soil microorganisms?

Answer 15

Humus

Question 16

What is the process of an animal changing its ways physically or mentally to deal with its surroundings?

Answer 16

Adaptation

Question 17

What is the layer which is home to many insects and animals. Very little sunlight is received and plants don’t tend to grow more than 3.5cm in height

Answer 17

Shrub layer

Question 18

What is a method of farming where old plants are burnt so new ones can be planted

Answer 18

Slash and burn

Question 19

What is an elongated leaf tip from which excess water drips off, as found in plants of the rainforest?

Answer 19

Drip tips

Question 20

What is a stock or supply of anything such as food, money and water?

Answer 20

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