Key Area 1: Ecosystems

Question 1

Herbivore

Answer 1

Plant eater

Question 2

Carnivore

Answer 2

Animal eater

Question 3

Omnivore

Answer 3

Both plant and animal eater

Question 4

Prey

Answer 4

Organisms hunted by a predator

Question 5

Predator

Answer 5

Hunts and eats other organisms

Question 6

Which type of competition is more intense?

Answer 6

Intraspecific.

Because it is a competition for all resources between the same species.

Question 7

IntrAspecific

Answer 7

Occurs amongst individuals of the sAme species and is for all resources required

Question 8

IntErspecific

Answer 8

Occurs amongst indivuduals of a diffERent species for one or a few of the resources they require

Question 9

Draw a food chain

Answer 9

Green plant –> Rabbit –> Fox

Producers Primary Secondary
consumer consumer

Question 10

Niche

Answer 10

The role that an organism plays within a community

Question 11

Population

Answer 11

Number of organsims/things in an area

Question 12

Species

Answer 12

Group of organisms that share characteristics which can interbreed and produce fertile offspring

Question 13

Biodiversity

Answer 13

Total variation of living things on earth or within an ecosystem

Question 14

Producer

Answer 14

Organism that can create it’s own energy eg. green plants using photosynthesis

Question 15

Consumer

Answer 15

Organism that gets it’s energy from another organism

Question 16

Ecosystem

Answer 16

All organisms living in a particular habitial and the non-living components with which the organisms interact

Question 17

Predation

Answer 17

The interactions between different species where organism (the predator) obtains it’s food by killing and eating other organisms (the prey)

Question 18

Food web

Answer 18

Natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representative of what eats what in a ecological community

Question 19

Community

Answer 19

is made up of all the living organisms in an ecosystem

Question 20

Food Chain

Answer 20

Shows a feeding relationship

Question 21

Habitat

Answer 21

The natural home or environment of a plant, animal or another organism

Question 22

Competition

Answer 22

Interaction between organisms seeking the same limited resources