Ecosystems And Peatlands

Question 0

What are the living elements of ecosystems

Answer 0

Plants, animals, humans and bacteria

Question 1

What is an ecosystem

Answer 1

A living community of plants and animals and the environment in which they live

Question 2

What are the non-living elements of ecosystems

Answer 2

Sunlight, air, water, rocks and soil

Question 3

How does an ecosystem work

Answer 3

-The plants make food inside themselves using the suns energy

1. the plant traps the suns energy in chlorophyl
2. it takes in carbon dioxide through its leaves and water through its roots
3. it uses the suns energy to turn see into glucose - this process is called photosynthesis
4. It combines glucose with minerals from the soil it needs to grow(these minerals are called nutrients[nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus])

Question 4

What eats plants

Answer 4

Herbivores

Question 5

What do carnivores eat

Answer 5

Animals

Question 6

What do omnivores eat

Answer 6

Plants and meat

Question 7

Give two examples of decomposers

Answer 7

Fungi and bacteria

Question 8

What do decomposers feed on

Answer 8

Dead animals, droppings and other waste material

Question 9

What does a food chain show

Answer 9

What eats what

Question 10

Give an eg of a food chain

Answer 10

Plant(producer) -> caterpillar (herbivore) -> wood mouse (carnivore) -> fox (carnivore)

Question 11

What does a food chain always stat with

Answer 11

A plant

Question 12

What is passed along the chain

Answer 12

The energy from the sun which was trapped by the plant

Question 13

Why are food webs better than food chains

Answer 13

They are more realistic because consumers will generally eat more than one thing

Question 14

What will every living thing become

Answer 14

A feast for the decomposers

Question 15

What do decomposers do when they make material rot

Answer 15

They release nutrients from it and then they sink back into the soil and get used all over again

Question 16

What is peat

Answer 16

Partially decomposed plant material which has been compressed under water-logged conditions

Question 17

How long to peat bogs take to form

Answer 17

Average of 1cm every 10 years

Question 18

What does this give us evidence of

Answer 18

What past environments were like

Question 19

What do we call peatlands in Ireland

Answer 19

Bogs

Question 20

How do bogs form?

Answer 20

1. The last ice age ended 10,000 years ago - when the ice melted valleys and lakes filled with water
2. Plants and vegetation grow around the lake, they died and fell in, slowly filling up the lake
3. When the lake was full, mosses and trees grew on the surface, they died and created layers of partially decomposed material -> peat

Question 21

What are the two types of bogs

Answer 21

Raised bogs and blanket bogs

Question 22

Name 3 bog plants

Answer 22

Heather, sundew and bog cotton

Question 23

Name 3 peatlands animals

Answer 23

Hare, rabbit and frog

Question 24

Name 3 ways peatlands are being destroyed

Answer 24

• Cutting peat for milling in horticulture
• dumping rubbish
• grazing sheep

Question 25

What do peatlands preserve

Answer 25

1. Plants and pollen which grew here in the past and record past vegetation and climates
2. Artifacts and bog bodies

Question 26

What do peatlands provide

Answer 26

Habitats for animal species which would become extinct because they only live in bogs

Question 27

Give 3 ways we can protect peatlands

Answer 27

• use wooden walkways to keep public off sensitive areas
• information boards educate the public about bog areas
• give peatlands ASSI status (areas of special scientific interest)