Ecosystems

Question 1

Ecosystem

Answer 1

An ecosystem is made up of all the living organisms in a llace, interacting with eachother, and their non-living surroundings

Question 2

Habitat

Answer 2

A habitata is the place where an organism lives. It must provide food, shelter, and a place to reproduce

Question 3

Adaption

Answer 3

An adaption is a feature that organisms have to help them live in a particular place

Question 4

Biotic

Answer 4

Biotic factors are the living components of an ecosystem

Question 5

Abiotic

Answer 5

Abiotic factors are the non living components of an ecosystem

Question 6

True or false, planet earth is an ecosystem

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What is a community in ecosystems?

Answer 7

A community is the interaction between populations of different organisms in a specific area

Question 8

Bioaccumulatiom

Answer 8

the build up of persistentor non-biodegradable pollutants without an organism or trophic level because they cannot be broken down

Question 9

Producers

Answer 9

green plants - they make glucose during photosynthesis

Question 10

Primary conumers

Answer 10

Usually eat plant material - they are herbivores. For example rabbits, caterpillars, coss and sheep

Question 11

Secondary consumers

Answer 11

Usually eat animal material - they are carnivores. For example cats, dogs and lions

Question 12

Predators

Answer 12

Kill for food. They are either secondary or teritary consumers

Question 13

Prey

Answer 13

The animals that predators feed on

Question 14

Scavengers

Answer 14

Feed on dead animals. For example crows vultures and hyenas

Question 15

Decomposers

Answer 15

Feed on dead and decaying organisms, and on the undigestedparts of plant and animal matter in faeces