Habitats and Ecosystems

Question 1

Habitat

Answer 1

A place where an organism lives

Question 2

Organisms

Answer 2

All living things, such as plants, animals and bacteria

Question 3

Biotic factors

Answer 3

These are living factors - partners for mating, organisms to eat, and organisms they may compete with for food and shelter.

Question 4

Abiotic factors

Answer 4

These are non-living factors - water, light, wind, soil and temperature.

Question 5

Habitat requirements

Answer 5

Requirements that need to be met by the living thing for them to live there.

Question 6

Nocturnal

Answer 6

Active and hunt at night

Question 7

Ecosystem

Answer 7

Abiotic and biotic factors interacting with each other and their environment

Question 8

Environment

Answer 8

The things that affect a plant or an animal in its habitat - the temperature, wind, quality of the air, quality of the water, type of soil

Question 9

Ecology

Answer 9

The study of the interactions between livings things that

Question 10

Ecologists

Answer 10

People who study ecology

Question 11

Biosphere

Answer 11

A place where life exists

Question 12

Water Salinity

Answer 12

How salty the water is

Question 13

Parasite

Answer 13

The organism living in another

Question 14

Host

Answer 14

The organism with something living inside it

Question 15

Food chain

Answer 15

A simple model that shows energy flow from one species to another

Question 16

Producers

Answer 16

A living thing that produces its own food by using sunlight

Question 17

Consumer

Answer 17

A living thing that gets its food by eating other living things

Question 18

Photosynthesis

Answer 18

The reaction in producers that transforms light energy into chemical energy.

Question 19

Multicellular organism

Answer 19

A living thing made up of two or more cells

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Adaptations

Answer 20

Characteristics that help organisms survive and reproduce

Question 21

Selection pressure

Answer 21

A challenge that affects an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce

Question 22

Behavioural adaptation

Answer 22

An adaptation that changes the way you behavioural or action

Question 23

Structural adaptation

Answer 23

An adaptation that changes the way the body structure

Question 24

Physiological adaptation

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Something the animal does not have hold of (internal body process)

Question 25

Symbiosis

Answer 25

Two different kinds of organisms that live together

Question 26

Symbiotic relationships

Answer 26

Relationships between organisms. There are three types : commensalism, mutualism, parasitism

Question 27

Independent

Answer 27

Works by yourself

Question 28

Interdependent

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Depend on each other for survival

Question 29

Commensalism

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A type of relationship where one organism benefits but the other is not affected

Question 30

Mutualism

Answer 30

A type of relationship where both organisms benefit and neither is harmed

Question 31

Parasitism

Answer 31

A type of relationship where on organism is harmed