The Living World Part 1

Question 1

What is an ecosystem

Answer 1

Is a community of organisms in an environment where living things and non living things interact with each other to survive

Question 2

What is an example of a small scale ecosystem

Answer 2

A garden

Question 3

What is an example of a large ecosystem

Answer 3

A rainforest

Question 4

What are ecosystems also called

Answer 4

Biomes

Question 5

What is a producer

Answer 5

Convert energy from the environment into glucose

Question 6

What is a consumer

Answer 6

Get energy from the sugars produced by the producers

Question 7

What is a decomposer

Answer 7

Break down dead organic matter and animal excretions and return nutrients to the soil

Question 8

What is a food chain

Answer 8

Shows a single chain and possible path of that transfers energy and nutrients in an ecosystem

Question 9

What is a food web

Answer 9

Show of all of the connectives and food chains in an ecosystem

Question 10

Why at each tropic level is biomass and energy lost

Answer 10

Many parts are not eaten by animal
Energy is lost through respiration
Excretion

Question 11

What is made when decomposers return nutrients to the soil

Answer 11

Humus

Question 12

What is nutrient cycling

Answer 12

A recycling of important minerals and elements within an ecosystem for the growth of plants and minerals

Question 13

What do the arrows shows in a food chain or web

Answer 13

Energy transfers

Question 14

What is a flora

Answer 14

All plant life living in an ecosystem

Question 15

What is a fauna

Answer 15

All animals living in an ecosystem

Question 16

What are the two natural changes that could effect an ecosystem

Answer 16

Extreme weather events
Viruses or disease

Question 17

What are the three human changes that could effect an ecosystem

Answer 17

Agriculture fertilises
Deforestation
Climate change

Question 18

Where are tundra/cold desert found

Answer 18

These are found in the artic circle where the suns rays have little strength

Question 19

What is the temp like in tundra zone

Answer 19

Below freezing for most of the year

Question 20

Where are coniferous forests found

Answer 20

60 ° north here winter temps are extremely cold due to lack of insulation

Question 21

Where are deciduous forests found

Answer 21

These grow in places with higher latitudes like the uk and Western Europe

Question 22

Where Are the Mediterranean found

Answer 22

Between 30 and 40 degrees north and south

Question 23

Where are hot deserts found

Answer 23

Found close to the tropics

Question 24

Where are tropical grasslands/savannah found

Answer 24

Between rainforest and desert

Question 25

Where are tropical rainforests found

Answer 25

Along the equator

Question 26

How much do rainforest cover earths surface

Answer 26

6%

Question 27

How much of the worlds wildlife live in a rainforest

Answer 27

More than half

Question 28

How much to deserts cover earths land surface

Answer 28

1/5 th

Question 29

Where is polar regions found

Answer 29

At the poles

Question 30

What is the temp like in polar regions

Answer 30

Below -50°

Question 31

What is the climate like in tropical rainforests

Answer 31

Warm and wet

Question 32

What is the average temp in a rainforest

Answer 32

26°

Question 33

What is the annual rainfall in a tropical rainforests

Answer 33

Above 2500mm

Question 34

What is the soil like in a tropical rainforest

Answer 34

Thin and poor

Question 35

How does the soil in a rainforest get nutrients

Answer 35

By nutrient cycling. Warm humid conditions cause litter to decompose quickly

Question 36

What makes soil in rainforest infertile

Answer 36

The rainfall washes away the nutrients

Question 37

What is solar insolation

Answer 37

Heat energy received from sun

Question 38

What is insolation

Answer 38

Is a measure of solar radiation energy received on a given surface area

Question 39

What is the angle of incidence

Answer 39

Is a measure of deviation of something ‘straight on’

Question 40

What are oblique rays

Answer 40

Larger area receives a lesser concentration of insolation per m

Question 41

What are vertical rays

Answer 41

Smaller area receives a greater concentration of insolation per m

Question 42

Is the sun tropical air high or low pressure

Answer 42

High

Question 43

Is the equatorial air high or low pressure

Answer 43

Low

Question 44

How do we represent temp on a climate graph

Answer 44

Line graph

Question 45

How do we represent rainfall on a climate graph

Answer 45

Bar chart