Topic 1 Ecosystems

Question 1

What is an Ecosystem?

Answer 1

All organisms living in a particular area and the non-living things they interact with.

Question 2

What is a species?

Answer 2

A group of genetically similar organisms that interbreed to produce fertile offspring

Question 3

What is a species?

Answer 3

A group of genetically similar organisms that interbreed to produce fertile offspring

Question 4

Define population

Answer 4

A group of organisms of the same species

Question 5

What is a community?

Answer 5

All animals + plants living in a certain area

Question 6

What is a habitat ?

Answer 6

A place where organisms live

Question 7

Define niche

Answer 7

The role an organism plays in a community

Question 8

What is a producer ?

Answer 8

Green plants that are able to produce their own food by conveying sun energy into chemical energy

Question 9

What is a consumer ?

Answer 9

They eat plants/animals to obtain energy

Question 10

What is a herbivore ?

Answer 10

An animal that only eats plant material

Question 11

What is a carnivore ?

Answer 11

An animals they only eats animal material

Question 12

What is an omnivore ?

Answer 12

An animal that eats both plant and animal material

Question 13

What is a predator ?

Answer 13

An animals which hunts other animals

Question 14

What is prey ?

Answer 14

An animal that is hunted for food

Question 15

What do arrows in a food chain represent ?

Answer 15

Flow of energy

Question 16

Define food web

Answer 16

A more complex relationship with interlocking arrows

Question 17

How does competition in an ecosystem occur ?

Answer 17

When a recourse is I Short supply

Question 18

What is interspecific competition?

Answer 18

Between different species

Question 19

What is intraspecific competition ?

Answer 19

The same species