Ecosystems 🌳

Question 1

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 1

An ecosystem is the name given to a community or group of living organisms (animals and plants) that live in a particular location. It is interaction between living an dnon living things

Question 2

What is a community?

Answer 2

A community is two or more populations of organisms. It is all different species that live in an ecosystm

Question 3

What is a population?

Answer 3

All the organisms of the same of closely related species in an area

Question 4

What is an individual?

Answer 4

Eg. One fish

Question 5

What is a habitat?

Answer 5

The natural home or environmentof an animal, plant, or other organissm

Question 6

What is interdependance?

Answer 6

When a community of species depend on eachother for basic neess such as food, shelter, polination, mates, seed dispersal

Question 7

What is a pathogen?

Answer 7

A harmful micro organism

Question 8

What is a niche?

Answer 8

A niche is a particular part or role an organism has within an ecosystem

Question 9

What is biotic?

Answer 9

Living things in ecosystem

Question 10

What is Abiotic?

Answer 10

Non living things in an ecosysytem

Question 11

What is transpiration?

Answer 11

Loss of water through the stomata of leaves by evaportation

Question 12

What does a food chain alaways start with?

Answer 12

A producer

Question 13

Where does the original dource of energy in a food chain come from?

Answer 13

The sun

Question 14

Is a herbivore a first stage consumer?

Answer 14

No its a third stage consumer

Question 15

What is a food web?

Answer 15

Interconnecting food chains

Question 16

What is adaptation?

Answer 16

Features of their physical bodies or ways they behave which allow them to sucseed amd survive

Question 17

What is biomass?

Answer 17

Biomass is renewable organic material that comes from plants and animals

Question 18

What is a decomposer?

Answer 18

Decomposers are bacteria and fungi which break down dead plant and animal matter

Question 19

What is a herbevore?

Answer 19

A consumer that only eats plants

Question 20

What is a carnivore?

Answer 20

A consumer that only eats meat

Question 21

What is a ombivore?

Answer 21

A consumer that eats both plants and meat

Question 22

What does xylem do

Answer 22

Carry water and dissolved materials

Question 23

What does the phloem do

Answer 23

Has food for the plant (glucose)

Question 24

Xylophages

Answer 24

Eat wood. Termites and bark beetles are xylophages

Question 25

Coprophages

Answer 25

Eat animal faeces. Dung beetles and flies are coprophages

Question 26

Geophages

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Eat earth, such as clay or soil. Parrots and cockatoos are geophaes

Question 27

Palynivores

Answer 27

Eat pollen. Honeybees and some butterflies are palynivores

Question 28

Ledidophages

Answer 28

Are fish that eat the scales (but not the body) of other fish. Some piranha and some catfish ard ledidophages

Question 29

Mucophages

Answer 29

Eat mucus. Usually, these tiny organisms live in the gills of fish

Question 30

Camoflage

Answer 30

Some predators have evolved coloration or patterns that help them blend into their surroundings, making it easier to approach prey without being seen

Question 31

Speed and agility

Answer 31

Many predators, such as cheetahs and falcons are very fast and agile allowing them to chase down prey

Question 32

Name some adptations of predators

Answer 32

Camoflage, speed, agility, sharp claw and teeth, stealth and ambush, enhanced senses, strength, power, venom, coperative hunting

Question 33

Name some adaptations of prey

Answer 33

Camoflauge, mimicry, speed and agility, binocular visiom, group defnse, burrowing or hiding, alarm calls, chemical defnses

Question 34

Bioaccumilation

Answer 34

The build up of persistent or non biodegradabale pollutants within an organism or trophic level because they cannot be broken down

Question 35

Biomagnificatiom

Answer 35

The increase in the concentration of persistent or non biodegredable pollutants along a food chain

Question 36

What are producers?

Answer 36

Green plants- they make glucose during photosynthesis

Question 37

What are Primary consumers

Answer 37

Usually eat plant material- they are herbivores, for example rabbits, caterpillars, cows and sheep

Question 38

What are Secondary consumers

Answer 38

Usually eat animal material- they are canivores, for example cats, dogs and lions

Question 39

What are predators

Answer 39

Kill for food. They are either secondary consumers or tertiary consumets

Question 40

What are prey

Answer 40

The animals that predators feed on

Question 41

What are scanvangers

Answer 41

Feed on dead animals, for example crows, vultures and hyenas

Question 42

What are decomposers

Answer 42

Feed on dead and decayingorganisms, and on the undigested parts of plant and animal matter in faeces

Question 43

De-nature

Answer 43

Where the shape of the enzyme changes so that it cannot work anymore

Question 44

What do nitrates do in plants?

Answer 44

They help supply nitrogen which is needed to make proteins