Ecosystems and Food Chains

Question 1

Define habitat

Answer 1

Place animals live

Question 2

Define ecoystem

Answer 2

The natural system made from biotic and abiotic features

Question 3

Define biome

Answer 3

An ecosystem on a global scale.

Question 4

Examples of biomes

Answer 4

forest, grassland, desert and tundras

Question 5

Define fauna

Answer 5

animal life in an area

Question 6

Define flora

Answer 6

plant life in an area

Question 7

Define producer

Answer 7

an organism that makes it own food through photosynthesis

Question 8

Define consumer

Answer 8

an organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms

Question 9

Define decomposers

Answer 9

an organism that gets its energy by breaking down dead material

Question 10

Define food chain

Answer 10

it shows what eats what

Question 11

Define respiration

Answer 11

release of energy from glucose

Question 12

Define biomass

Answer 12

amount of organic matter produced

Question 13

Define deciduous (trees)

Answer 13

trees that shed their leaves annually

Question 14

Define coniferous (trees)

Answer 14

trees that do not shed their leaves

Question 15

Define herbivore

Answer 15

organism that eats plant only

Question 16

Define carnivore

Answer 16

organism that eats animals only

Question 17

Define omnivore

Answer 17

organism that eats animals and plants

Question 18

Define hibernating

Answer 18

being in an inactive dormant state where your metabolism and heart rate decrease

Question 19

Define nocturnal

Answer 19

being active at night

Question 20

Define leaching

Answer 20

leaching is the loss of soluble substances (e.g. minerals from plants) from the soil, due to rain .

Question 21

Define foodweb

Answer 21

shows what eats what and how they overlap

Question 22

Define fallout pathway

Answer 22

Death of flora and fauna and the addition of the nutrient to the litter store due to breakdown by decomposers.

Question 23

Explain the nutrient cycle?

Answer 23

. Trees that shed leaves.
. The leaf litter gets broken down by decomposers into nutrients
. Nutrients get infiltrated into the soil with the help of precipitation
. some nutrients is leached, which is the loss of plant nutrients from the soil, due to rain and irrigation.
. Some nutrient flows as a runoff
. Nutrients are take up by plants for growth through uptake pathway

Question 24

Define uptake pathway

Answer 24

The action of plants taking nutrients from the soil via their root system.

Question 25

Define surface runoff

Answer 25

Flow of water over the surface of an area.

Question 26

Define decomposers

Answer 26

organisms such as bacteria and fungi breaking down organic material to release nutrients and elements such as carbon and oxygen.