EcoSystems

Question 1

Carnivore

Answer 1

A animal that eats meat

Question 2

Consumers

Answer 2

A person or animal that eats or consumes something

Question 3

Producer

Answer 3

Animals that take in sunlight for energy

Question 4

Omnivore

Answer 4

Animal or person that eats meat and plants

Question 5

Abiotic

Answer 5

A non living thing in an ecosystem

Question 6

Biotic

Answer 6

A living thing in a ecosystem

Question 7

Detritivores

Answer 7

An animal that feeds on dead organic material

Question 8

Decomposers

Answer 8

An organism that decomposes organic material

Question 9

Heterotroph

Answer 9

An organism that depends on another organism to supply its complex molecules and energy

Question 10

Habitat

Answer 10

The natural home of an animal

Question 11

Niche

Answer 11

The conditions on which an organism lives

Question 12

Relationship

Answer 12

When two organisms are connected and create other organisms

Question 13

Predator

Answer 13

An animal that naturally prays on another animal

Question 14

Prey

Answer 14

An animal that is hunted by other animals

Question 15

Symbiosis

Answer 15

Interaction between 2 different organisms

Question 16

Parasites

Answer 16

An organism that lives inside another organism

Question 17

Commensalism

Answer 17

An association between 2 organisms which one benefits another

Question 18

Symbiotic

Answer 18

Interaction between 2 different organisms

Question 19

Mutualism

Answer 19

A relationship between 2 organisms in which one benefit

Question 20

Herbivore

Answer 20

A animal that eats plants

Question 21

Organism

Answer 21

A living thing

Question 22

Species

Answer 22

A group of animals that have features in common

Question 23

Populations

Answer 23

All the individual organisms in one species

Question 24

Community

Answer 24

All the populations of various organisms

Question 25

Ecosystem

Answer 25

A community of living things that interact with one another

Question 26

Food chains

Answer 26

Diagram beginning with producers that shows what organisms eat

Question 27

Food web

Answer 27

A number of food chains joined together

Question 28

Photosynthesis

Answer 28

The food making process. When a plant takes in the sunlight and turns it into food for it to eat.

Question 29

Autotrophs

Answer 29

A organisms that can produce it's own nutrients

Question 30

Chlorophyll

Answer 30

A green coloured chemical in plants that absorbs the light

Question 31

Cellular Respiration

Answer 31

The chemical reaction involving oxygen that moves the energy

Question 32

Ecological niche

Answer 32

Specific conditions to which a organism is able to live within

Question 33

Nutrition

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The process of providing the food necessary to health

Question 34

Infraspecific competition

Answer 34

Members of 1 species compete for the same resources

Question 35

Infraspecific

Answer 35

Members of 1 species compete for the same resources

Question 36

Food chains

Answer 36

A diagram, beginning with a producer that shows what organisms eat

Question 37

Food Web

Answer 37

A number of food chains joined together

Question 38

Trophic Level

Answer 38

Each of several hierarchical levels in an ecosystem

Question 39

Second Trophic level

Answer 39

The second level of a food web

Question 40

Third Trophic level

Answer 40

The 3rd level of a food web

Question 41

Fourth Trophic level

Answer 41

4th level of a food web

Question 42

Metabolism

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The chemical reactions occurring with an organism that enable the organism to use energy

Question 43

Saprophytes

Answer 43

Organisms such as fungi that obtain nutrients from dead organic matter

Question 44

Detritus

Answer 44

Decomposing plant

Question 45

Fossil Fuels

Answer 45

Substance such as cole oil and natural gas that has formed from the remains from ancient organisms

Question 46

Nitrogen fixing bacteria

Answer 46

Bacteria which take nitrogen containing compounds from the atmosphere

Question 47

Nitrifying bacteria

Answer 47

Bacteria that changed dissolved ammonia into nitrate compounds

Question 48

Decomposer bacteria

Answer 48

A organism that can break down dead and decaying organisms

Question 49

Denitrifying Bacteria

Answer 49

Bacteria in the soil that chemically change useful nitrate compounds into poisonous nitrates

Question 50

Metabolism

Answer 50

The chemical reactions occurring with an organism that enable the organism to use energy

Question 51

Saprophytes

Answer 51

Organisms such as fungi that obtain nutrients from dead organic matter

Question 52

Detritus

Answer 52

Decomposing plant

Question 53

Fossil Fuels

Answer 53

Substance such as cole oil and natural gas that has formed from the remains from ancient organisms

Question 54

Nitrogen fixing bacteria

Answer 54

Bacteria which take nitrogen containing compounds from the atmosphere

Question 55

Agriculture

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The use of land to grow crops

Question 56

Monocultures

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Crops grown on land used for 1 kind of crop only

Question 57

Fertilisers

Answer 57

Chemicals added to soil to provide the nutrients needed for a plant to grow

Question 58

Eutrophication

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A form of water pollution involving an excess of nutrients

Question 59

Chemical control

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The control of plant or animal pests

Question 60

Biological Control

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A method of controlling pests by introducing one of there natural enemies

Question 61

Pesticides

Answer 61

A substance or preparation for destroying pests

Question 62

Bioaccumulation

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The build up of a chemical with an organism as a result of it's process along a food chain

Question 63

Introduced species

Answer 63

Species that is not native to a ecosystem

Question 64

Ecological footprints

Answer 64

Estimate of the amount of the earths productive land and water required to supply the resources