Nature and Environment

Question 1

The network of interactions that link together the living and non-living parts of an
environment.

Answer 1

Ecosystem

Question 2

The totality of a closely related number of individual organisms that belong to the same
species and live in the same geographical area and interact with each other through sexual (or asexual for
bacteria) reproduction.

Answer 2

Population

Question 3

When living organisms move from one biome to another. It can also describe geographic
population shifts within nations and across borders.

Answer 3

Migration

Question 4

Supplies of biological organisms that can be replaced after harvesting
by regrowth or reproduction of the removed species, such as seafood or timber.

Answer 4

Renewable Resources

Question 5

Something that cannot be replaced once it is used or that may take many
hundreds of years to be replaced.

Answer 5

Non Renewable

Question 6

Fuel formed over millions of years from compression of the decayed remains of living
matter.Coal, oil, and natural gas are fossil fuels

Answer 6

Fossil Fuels

Question 7

A condition where structures or systems are in complete balance. A state of rest or
balance, in which all opposing forces are equal.

Answer 7

Equilibrium

Question 8

All the stages in the life of a plant or animal organism, between life and death.

Answer 8

Life Cycle

Question 9

The amount of resources or energy used by a household

Answer 9

Consumption

Question 10

Preserving and carefully managing natural resources so that they can be used by
present and future generations. We conserve resources
by using them more efficiently, with minimum waste

Answer 10

Conservation

Question 11

Material that is able to be
broken down or decomposed by natural processes into
simpler compounds. Natural processes include exposure
to sun, water, and air.

Answer 11

Biodegradable

Question 12

A method for describing how food
energy passes from organism to
organism. The description establishes a
hierarchy of organisms where each
feeds on those below and is the source
of food for those above.

Answer 12

Food Chain

Question 13

A network of interconnected food chains in an ecosystem

Answer 13

Food Web

Question 14

A feeding level within a food web.

Answer 14

Trophic Level

Question 15

An animal that eats only plants.

Answer 15

Herbivores

Question 16

An organism that feeds on large bits of dead and decaying plant and animal matter. For
example, earthworms, dung beetles, and wolverines are detrivores

Answer 16

Detrivore

Question 17

A consumer that eats other animals. For example, wolves and orca

Answer 17

Carnivore

Question 18

An organism that breaks down (decomposes) dead or waste materials, such as
rotting wood, dead animals, or animal waste and returns important nutrients to the environment.

Answer 18

Decomposer

Question 19

An organism, such as an animal, that must obtain its food by eating other organisms in
its environment; can be a herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore.

Answer 19

Consumer

Question 20

Any animal that preys on food predators have killed, or food recently discarded.

Answer 20

Scavenger

Question 21

An organism that creates its own food rather than eating other organisms to obtain food;
forexample, a plant.

Answer 21

Producer

Question 22

An organism that is hunted by a predator

Answer 22

Prey

Question 23

An organism that hunts another living thing for food.

Answer 23

Predator

Question 24

An animal that eats both plants and animals.

Answer 24

Omnivores

Question 25

The way that an organism fits into an ecosystem, in terms of where it lives, how it obtains its
food, and how it interacts with other organisms.

Answer 25

Niche

Question 26

Large regions of Earth where temperature and precipitation are distinct and certain types of
plants and animals are found.

Answer 26

Biomes

Question 27

The place where an animal or a plant naturally lives or grows and that provides it with
everything it needs to grow

Answer 27

Habitat

Question 28

The place where an animal or a plant naturally lives or grows and that provides it with
everything it needs to grow.

Answer 28

Habitat

Question 29

The region where a river flows into the ocean and fresh river water mixes with saltwater

Answer 29

Estuary

Question 30

All the influences and conditions in which organisms live, including the
actual place, circumstances, soil, water, air, and climate that surround and affect plants and animals in a
particular area, and which determine their form and survival.

Answer 30

Local Environment