Y8 - Ecology

Question 1

What is a biosphere?

Answer 1

The regions of a planet occupied by living organisms

Question 2

What is a biome?

Answer 2

Biomes are distinct biological communities that have formed in response to a shared physical climate.

Question 3

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 3

a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

Question 4

What is a community?

Answer 4

A community is a group or association of populations of two or more different species occupying the same geographical area

Question 5

What is a population?

Answer 5

A population is all the organisms of the same group or species, which live in a particular geographical area

Question 6

What is an organism/individual?

Answer 6

An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form

Question 7

What is a habitat?

Answer 7

A habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives

Question 8

What is interdependence ?

Answer 8

The dependence of two or more things on each other

Question 9

What is a biotic factor?

Answer 9

Any living component that affects another organism, or shapes the ecosystem

Question 10

What is an abiotic factor?

Answer 10

Any non-living chemical or physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms or the functioning of ecosystems