Science: Ecology

Question 1

How do you classify organisms?

Answer 1

Vertebrates and Invertebrates

Question 2

How do you classify vertebrates further?

Answer 2

Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians and Fish

Question 3

What are Vertebrates?

Answer 3

An Organism with a backbone

Question 4

What are Invertebrates?

Answer 4

An Organism without a backbone

Question 5

Is a Dolphin a Mammal or a Fish?

Answer 5

A Mammal

Question 6

How Many Legs does an Arachnid have?

Answer 6

8 Legs

Question 7

How Many Legs does a Crustacean have?

Answer 7

10 Legs

Question 8

How Many Legs does an Insect have?

Answer 8

6 Legs

Question 9

How Many Legs does a Myriapod have?

Answer 9

10 - 750 Legs

Question 10

What is a Producer?

Answer 10

An organism that makes its own food

Question 11

What is a Consumer?

Answer 11

An organism that can’t make its own food

Question 12

What is a Carnivore?

Answer 12

An organism that only eats meat

Question 13

What is a Herbivore?

Answer 13

An organism that only eats plants

Question 14

What is a Omnivore?

Answer 14

An organism that eats both plants and meat

Question 15

Is a Human a Carnivore or Herbivore?

Answer 15

Trick Question: Humans are Omnivores

Question 16

What is a Food Chain?

Answer 16

A Food Chain is a Diagram that shows what an Organism eats. It shows the Transfer of Energy between them

Question 17

What is a Population?

Answer 17

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All the members of one species living in a certain habitat

Question 18

What is a Community?

Answer 18

All the populations of different species living in a certain habitat

Question 19

What are Pesticides?

Answer 19

Chemicals that are used to kill pests. Some farmers use it to protect the crops on their farm.

Question 20

What are Insecticides?

Answer 20

A certain type of Pesticide that aims to kill insects

Question 21

What are Mammals?

Answer 21

They give birth to live young, they produce milk and they have hair

Question 22

What are Birds?

Answer 22

They lay hard shells and they have feathers

Question 23

What are Reptiles?

Answer 23

They lay soft - shelled eggs

Question 24

What are Amphibians?

Answer 24

Jelly coated eggs laid in water and soft, moist skin

Question 25

What are Fish?

Answer 25

Wet scales and fins to move and gills to breath

Question 26

What are Arthropods?

Answer 26

An important group of invertebrates that have a hard exoskeleton, a segmented body and jointed legs

Question 27

What happens when an Organism dies?

Answer 27

They get decomposed and turned into minerals

Question 28

What are Decomposers?

Answer 28

Organisms that break down dead organisms and the dead organisms become minerals

Question 29

What is an example of a Decomposer?

Answer 29

Fungi and Bacteria

Question 30

What is the Primary Trophic Level?

Answer 30

Producers

Question 31

What is the Secondary Trophic Level?

Answer 31

Primary Consumers

Question 32

What is the Tertiary Trophic Level?

Answer 32

Secondary Consumers

Question 33

What is the Quaternary Trophic Level?

Answer 33

Tertiary Consumers

Question 34

What do Organisms need to survive?

Answer 34

They need to to eat, have a defence against predators, be able to reproduce and adapt to their habitat

Question 35

What is a Pyramid of Biomass?

Answer 35

Used to determine how much matter an organism has without water

Question 36

What is DDT?

Answer 36

A commonly used insecticide that is toxic. This will give a small dose of it to herbivores, which will then give a bigger dose to the animals up the food chain. This is called bioaccumulation. The reason DDT is dangerous is because it is non - biodegradable

Question 37

What is another method?

Answer 37

You could attract predators to where you want to protect so the pests won’t go there.