Quadrats & Transects

Question 1

How do you study the distribution of an organism

Answer 1

Measure how come on an organism is in 2 sample areas using quadrats and compare them
Study how the distributing changes across an area by placing a quadrat along a transect

Question 2

What can cause the distribution of organisms

Answer 2

Environmental changes like
Temperature
Availability of water
Composition of atmospheric gases

Question 3

What can environmental favours be caused by

Answer 3

Seasonal factors
Geographic factors
Human interaction

Question 4

What happens to the water on our planet

Answer 4

It’s constantly recycled

Question 5

What happens at the start of the water cycles to water from energy from the sun

Answer 5

Energy from the sun makes water evaporate from the land and sea making it water vapour

Question 6

What does water evaporate from plants called

Answer 6

Transpiration

Question 7

What happens to water vapour in the water cycle

Answer 7

The arm water vapour is carried upward ( warm air rises) and as it gets Higher it condenses and cools to form clouds

Question 8

What happens to water in clouds

Answer 8

It falls as precipitation into land where it’s provided as fresh water for plants and animals

Question 9

What happens to the water after precipitation

Answer 9

It drains into the sea and the whole process starts again

Question 10

What are the main parts of the water cycle

Answer 10

Heat energy from sun makes water evaporate /transpiration
Condensation into clouds
Precipitation water falls

Question 11

What are living things made of

Answer 11

Materials they take from the world around them

Question 12

What do plants do to elements

Answer 12

They turn elements like carbon oxygen hydrogen and nitrogen from the soil and air into copper compunds like carbs proteins and fats to make up living organisms
These will get passed up the food chain

Question 13

What happens to the materials that make up living things

Answer 13

They are returned to the environment in waste products or when the organisms it’s in dies and decays

Question 14

Why do materials decay

Answer 14

They’re broken down (digested) by microorganism

Question 15

What does decay do

Answer 15

Pits the stuff that plants need to grow back into the soil

Question 16

What happens to materials in a stable community

Answer 16

The materials that are taken out of the soil and used by plants etc are balanced by those that are put back in

Question 17

What is the carbon cycle

Answer 17

The constant cycling of carbon

Question 18

What happens at the start of the carbon cycle to co2

Answer 18

It’s removed from the atmosphere by green plants and algae during photosynthesis

Question 19

What happens to the carbon in co2 in photosynthesis

Answer 19

It’s used to make glucose which can be turned into carbohydrates fats and proteins that make up the body of the plant and algae

Question 20

What happens to co2 after the green plants have it in and photosynthesised

Answer 20

The plants will respire and some carbon is returned to the atmosphere as co2

Question 21

How do carbon compounds get into animals

Answer 21

Animals eat the plants and algae and some carbon becomes part of the fats and proteins in their body
The carbon is now moving though the food chain

Question 22

What happens to carbon when the animals respire

Answer 22

Some carbon is returned to the atmosphere as co2

Question 23

What happens when plants and animals die

Answer 23

Other animals called detritus feeders and microorganisms feed on their remains when these organisms respire co2 is returned to the atmosphere

Question 24

How is co2 released into the air apart from respiring organisms

Answer 24

Through combustion of wood and fossil fuels releasing co2

Question 25

So what happens to carbon in the carbon cycle

Answer 25

Is constantly being cycled from the air through food chains and eventually back into the air again