Ecosystems

Question 1

The first organism in a food chain

Answer 1

Producer

Question 2

Not a producer

Answer 2

Consumer

Question 3

A creature that hunts other animals

Answer 3

Predator

Question 4

A creature that is hunted by other animals

Answer 4

Prey

Question 5

generally, Why do creatures lose energy as heat

Answer 5

Respiration

Question 6

Why can food chains not go on forever?

Answer 6

Because most of a creatures energy is lost as heat and cannot be gained by another creature

Question 7

Biodiversity

Answer 7

Variety of plant or animal life in a particular habitat

Question 8

Individual

Answer 8

A single living thing

Question 9

Population

Answer 9

A group of same species organisms living in the same place

Question 10

Community

Answer 10

A group of different species organisms living in the same place (or having a characteristic in common

Question 11

Ecosystem

Answer 11

The interaction of a community of biotic things with abiotic parts of their environment

Question 12

Biome

Answer 12

A large naturally occurring community of plants and animals occupying a major habitat

Question 13

Biosphere

Answer 13

Regions of the surface and atmosphere of a planet with living organisms

Question 14

What do animals compete for?

Answer 14

Space, food, water, mates

Question 15

What do plants compete for?

Answer 15

Sunlight, Water, Space, Soil (Nutrients)

Question 16

Interspecific Competition

Answer 16

Competition between different species

Question 17

Intraspecific Competition

Answer 17

Competition within the same species

Question 18

What is adaptation?

Answer 18

Special features or behaviours that make organisms particularly suited to its environment

Question 19

When a cell has too much water

Answer 19

Turgid/Hypotonic

Question 20

When a cell has too little water

Answer 20

Plasmolysed/Hypertonic

Question 21

When a cell has a normal amount of water

Answer 21

Standard/Isotonic

Question 22

What is Osmosis

Answer 22

Osmosis is the movement of water molecules from a high concentration of water molecules to an area of low concentration water molecules through a partially permeable membrane

Question 23

The general movement of particles in two areas

Answer 23

Net Movement

Question 24

Which solution will the net movement between pure water and a concentrated sugar solution go towards

Answer 24

The concentrated sugar solution