Interactions In The Environment

Question 1

What are abiotic elements?

Answer 1

Abiotic elements are also called. Abiotic factors are nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

Question 2

Are abiotic elements essential to an ecosystem ?

Answer 2

Abiotic elements are essential to living elements

Question 3

What are some examples of abiotic elements?

Answer 3

So examples include water, air, soil, rocks, nutrients, sunlight, temperature, weather, and others 

Question 4

What are biotic elements?

Answer 4

Biotic elements also called biotic factors are living elements of an ecosystem 

Question 5

What are some examples of biotic elements?

Answer 5

Biotic elements could be plants, bacteria, trees, insects, fishes, and animals.

Question 6

What are producers?

Answer 6

Producers are the living parts of an ecosystem. Producers use abiotic components and convert them into stored energy or food.

Question 7

What are producers?

Answer 7

Producers are the living parts of an ecosystem. Producers use abiotic components and convert them into stored energy or food.

Question 8

What are some examples of producers?

Answer 8

Some examples of producers are trees plants and algae plants. Use photosynthesis to take nutrients from the soil and water and converted into energy.

Question 9

What are consumers?

Answer 9

Consumers are living components of an ecosystem that cannot make their own energy and food 

Question 10

What are some examples of consumers?

Answer 10

There are three types of consumers, herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores. Examples would be skunks Deers and bears.

Question 11

What are decomposers?

Answer 11

Decomposers are living organisms that break down other dead organisms and waste.

Question 12

Examples of decomposers?

Answer 12

Examples are fundi and bacteria

Question 13

What are biotic interactions?

Answer 13

The interactions among an ecosystems living components, such as producers, consumers, and decomposers are called biotic interaction.

Question 14

What is an example of one of the interactions?

Answer 14

One of the interactions is passing food and energy from one thing to another. Food and energy are created by producers such as plants that will then be eaten by consumers like small insects or animals. When these animals and insects the decomposers break them down and that, and they become nutrients in the soil, which are used by plants produce more more food than the cycle of interactions begins again.

Question 15

What is an example of interactions between biotic and non-biotic components

Answer 15

Living organisms, need water in order to survive. Plants need nutrients from the soil and sunlight to produce food and energy. Animals need oxygen and food to crate created by plants. All of those things that are needed are biotic elements.

Question 16

Is energy important and what is it called when it’s transferred?

Answer 16

Energy energy, essential part of an ecosystem. Biotic things require energy to survive and grow breathe and reproduce. Energy pass from one member of an ecosystem to other members. This is usually the form of food. This passing of energy is called energy energy transfer.

Question 17

What is the first law of thermodynamics?

Answer 17

The laws of thermodynamics explain energy transfer with an ecosystem. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. Energy can only change from one form to another within the ecosystem.

Question 18

What is the second law of thermodynamics?

Answer 18

The second law of thermodynamics explains that when energy is transformed, some energy is lost. For example, when animals eat plants, they cannot use all of the energy from the plant, so it becomes waste and gets excreted.

Question 19

What is plant biomass?

Answer 19

Plants use the sums energy and transform it into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. This energy produced is stored as a as of plant biomass biomass, consumed by other things in the food chain.

Question 20

What is a food chain?

Answer 20

A food chain is the way that food and energy are transferred from one part of the ecosystem to the other. Every time, energy or food is passed to a different level energy is graduate gradually lost.

Question 21

What percentage of the energy does the recipient get?

Answer 21

10% the rest is lost

Question 22

How is energy transferred in the food chain?

Answer 22

Each part of the food chain represents a trophic level. The bottom of the food chain or the primary producers. Plants and phytoplankton are the primary producers. Primary producers produce most of the energy and food needed to support their ecosystem.

Question 23

What eat primary producers on the food chain?

Answer 23

Organisms that consume primary producers are called primary consumers. Some examples would be herbivore.

Question 24

What eats primary consumers?

Answer 24

Secondary consumers eat primary consumers

Question 25

What are some examples of secondary consumers?

Answer 25

Carnivores meat eaters

Question 26

What things eat secondary consumers ?

Answer 26

Tertiary consumers

Question 27

What is at the top of the food chain?

Answer 27

Apex consumers or tertiary consumers they’re animals with no natural predators

Question 28

Ex of apex or tertiary consumers

Answer 28

Animals with no natural predators
Lions bears sharks etc.

Question 29

How is the flow of energy through a food chain shown ?

Answer 29

The flow of energy through the food chain can be shown using an energy pyramid. An energy pyramid, which is also called the trophic pyramid is a visual representation of energy and an ecosystem. Producers provide support to all of the levels above them in the pyramid.

Question 30

How many trophic levels are there ?

Answer 30

4

Question 31

What is the order of the trophic pyramid?

Answer 31

Decomposer
Producer
Primary consumers
Secondary consumers
Tertiary consumer s
Apex and tertiary consumers

Question 32

What is ecological succession?

Answer 32

Ecological succession is when an ecosystem goes through gradual changes and its ecological community over long period of time.

Question 33

What is primary succession?

Answer 33

Primary succession occurs when living living organisms, move into a new area that was previously on inhabited or baron. These areas usually do not have topsoil and are rocky. An example of this is the rock formed after volcanic eruption when lava dries up creating a rocky surface.

Question 34

What is another example of primary succession?

Answer 34

Another way for primary succession to occur is through a glacier retreat.

Question 35

What are the species that first inhabit the land during primary succession?

Answer 35

They’re called the pioneer species which are organisms.

Question 36

What is it called? Once the new environment has reached a final stage and where it is stable?

Answer 36

It is called the climax community. This is the final stage where you will see bigger trees, and larger animals.

Question 37

What is secondary succession?

Answer 37

Secondary succession occurs when an area that is previously occupied is occupied by a new species. Secondary succession usually happens after an event that kills or disrupts the areas original residence. This disturbance can be internal or external.

Question 38

What is an example of secondary succession?

Answer 38

An example of secondary succession is the growth of new plants after forest fire, which has destroyed the original vegetation. Overtime, the forest will start to grow back with grasses and shrubs slowly appearing. Then small trees will start to grow and cover the areas of the forest. Eventually, large trees will also reach into grow and reach its climax community.

Question 39

Are humans able to influence secondary succession?

Answer 39

Humans are also enable to influence secondary succession. For example, after a farmers harvest, their crops and plough their fields. New plants are planted to replace them.

Question 40

Which occurs faster, secondary succession or primary succession?

Answer 40

Secondary succession occurs faster than primary succession because the soil is present.

Question 41

How long does secondary succession usually take?

Answer 41

Secondary succession usually takes decades to 100 of years to complete.

Question 42

How long does primary succession take?

Answer 42

Primary succession takes more extended periods from hundreds to thousand of years more than secondary succession.

Question 43

What is carrying capacity?

Answer 43

The number of people, other living organisms or crops that are region can support without environmental degradation

Question 44

What are limiting factors?

Answer 44

Some examples of limit limiting factors are biotic like food, mates, and competition with other organisms for resources. Others are abiotic like space, temperature, altitude, and amount of sunlight available in environment.

Question 45

What are some limiting factors?

Answer 45

Some essential limiting factors of an ecosystem could be sunlight habitat finding a mate food, temperature predators, and water

Question 46

What are invasive species?

Answer 46

Invasive species are living things that are introduced either accidentally or on purpose to new areas. These new to the area species and invade, invade local ecosystems and threaten the existence of native species by taking over their habitats and food sources.

Question 47

What are the five designations for species to be considered at risk?

Answer 47

One extinct species that no longer exist anywhere
Two extirpated species that no longer exist in one area, but may still live somewhere else
Three endangered species that are facing extension or extirpation
threatened species that are likely to become endangered
Special concern species that have specific characteristics which make them sensitive to natural and human activities.

Question 48

How does deforestation affect the ecosystem?

Answer 48

Plants and animals that rely on trees for food, shelter, and or shade will suddenly be displaced, resulting in the total collapse of their ecosystem. Some species may even disappear. The trees also serve as an air filter to our planet, so the clearing of vast rainforest will have huge impacts on the earths air quality which is essential for our living.

Question 49

What else can happen with clearcutting?

Answer 49

Clearcutting can also result in erosion and aridity which can cause desertification. Desertification characters by the ruin of land quality.

Question 50

How does pollution have an effect on our ecosystems?

Answer 50

The rise and air pollution has affected our greenhouse gases and created greenhouse effect or global warming. Global warming has been of one of the reasons for severe weather conditions like droughts, intense storms in the melting of glaciers. All of these changes in the weather have affected plants, animals, and human across, the planet through the destruction of habitats and food sources.

Question 51

How can overexploitation of resources affect our Ecosystem

Answer 51

Over exploitation of our resources, for example see life can lead to a decline in some species if they are overfished or overkill.

Question 52

What does monoculture?

Answer 52

Monoculture is when you go one type of plant in bulk in one area it has risks and rewards

Question 53

What is polyculture?

Answer 53

Poly culture is when multiple types of plants or crops are grown near each other or together, which would prevent risks and is more rewarding than monoculture

Question 54

What is organic?

Answer 54

Organic crops use natural fertilizers, practice, natural weed and pest reduction less leaching improve biodiversity and have better soil quality than traditional

Question 55

What is traditional?

Answer 55

The use of synthetic fertilizers, the use of incest, decides and herbicides, and are less expensive and more damaging with more leaching

Question 56

How do indigenous people not waste anything in their ecosystem

Answer 56

They have been taught that people should not waste anything when using plants and animals for example, when they hunt down animals like deer, they use every part of the animals as food, clothing, tools, and medicine.

Question 57

What are indigenous thoughts on how to treat their ecosystems in animals?

Answer 57

They often believe that they are caretakers of the Earth, so they have a great respect for the air water and land in fire. This is because indigenous peoples have lived off of land for generations and indigenous peoples. Also know how to properly manage the land and try to ensure human and wildlife coexistence in their ecosystem.

Question 58

What does HWC stand for?

Answer 58

HWC stands for human wildlife conflict. It happens when animals who share the same area of humans post a direct threat to the safety of the livelihood of the indigenous peoples.