Oceans Yr10

Question 1

What are Food Chains

Answer 1

A food chain describes how energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem

Question 2

What are producers

Answer 2

Things that make their own food from CO2 and water and sunlight

Question 3

What are consumers

Answer 3

Things that eat other living things

Question 4

What are Primary Consumers

Answer 4

Organisms that eat producers

Question 5

What are secondary consumers

Answer 5

Organisms that eat primary consumers

Question 6

What are tertiary consumers

Answer 6

Organisms that each secondary consumers

Question 7

What is a food web

Answer 7

A food web consists of all the food chains in a ecosystem

Question 8

What does it mean if an arrow is pointing at an animal

Answer 8

It shows the flow of nutrients and energy so if the arrow is pointing at an organism, it means that organism is gaining nutrients and energy from the organism which the arrow is coming from

Question 9

What is an energy pyramid

Answer 9

A pyramid that shows how uch energy is passed on through a food chain

Only about 10% of the energy consumed is passed up the food chain. The rest of the energy is used up by the animal that got eaten for metabolic processes such as heat and surviving or is excreted.

Question 10

What is a Habitat

Answer 10

A place that an organism lives that contains all the things it needs to survive

Question 11

What is a abiotic factor

Answer 11

Non living parts of the habitat like temperature, sun and water

Question 12

What is a biotic factor

Answer 12

living parts of the habitat like organisms, trees and grass

Question 13

What are adaptations

Answer 13

The process where a species evolves its characteristics that it enable it to survive in a specific habitat

Question 14

What are physical adaptations

Answer 14

A changing feature of a living thing in an animal’s looks and build to help it survive

Question 15

What are behavioral adaptations

Answer 15

Something an animals does and changes in the way they feed, move or breed

Question 16

What are Microplastics

Answer 16

Microplastics are tiny plastics that are produced when plastic items are broken down by environmental factors like waves and radiation.

Question 17

How to make oceans more sustainable with fishing methods

Answer 17

Ban use of destructive equipment that can destroy marine life and also catch unwanted fish

Fishing less and only taking what is needed

Enforcing safe areas so that some areas of ocean cannot be fished so it can regenerate and ocean life can regrow

Question 18

What are the spheres of the world

Answer 18

1. hydrosphere = water in a solid or liquid state (oceans, rivers, lakes, seas)
2. geosphere or lithosphere = system associated with the solid rocky portions of Earth and all the things that shape Earth the way it is (rock, mountains, sea bed)
3. atmosphere = particles in the air (clouds, gases, hurricanes)
4. biosphere = all living things on Earth (animals, plants)

Question 19

Who is tane

Answer 19

The god of forests and trees

Question 20

Who is Mauri

Answer 20

Respect for life and for the things the creators have made

Question 21

Who is Te Po

Answer 21

The long dark knight

Question 22

What is Te Wehenga

Answer 22

The separation of Earth and Sky

Question 23

Who is ranginui

Answer 23

The Sky father

Question 24

What is kaitiakitanga

Answer 24

Guardianship and managing of the environment

Question 25

Who is tane

Answer 25

The one who separated his parents by pushing them apart.

Question 26

What is an ecosystem

Answer 26

Different organisms interacting with each other in an environment

Question 27

What is a decomposer

Answer 27

Something that breaks down decaying or dead organisms

Question 28

What is sustainability

Answer 28

Meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs