Ecosystems

Question 1

What is a carnivore?

Answer 1

A consumer which eats other animals

Question 2

What is a herbivore?

Answer 2

A consumer which only eats plants

Question 3

What is an omnivore?

Answer 3

A consumer which eats plants and animals

Question 4

What is a producer?

Answer 4

An organism which produces its own food

Question 5

What is a consumer?

Answer 5

An organism which eats already made food

Question 6

What is the meaning of population?

Answer 6

The number of individuals of the same species in a habitat

Question 7

What is a species?

Answer 7

Organisms which can reproduce to produce fertile offspring

Question 8

What is a predator?

Answer 8

An organism which hunts and eats prey

Question 9

What is the purpose of a food chain?

Answer 9

To show feeding relationships from predator to consumer

Question 10

What is biodiversity?

Answer 10

The variety of organisms which exists in a habitat

Question 11

What is prey?

Answer 11

An organism that is eaten by predators

Question 12

What is the purpose of a food web?

Answer 12

To show all feeding interactions between organisms in an ecosystem

Question 13

What is a habitat?

Answer 13

The place where an organism lives

Question 14

What is a community?

Answer 14

All of the organisms living in a particular area

Question 15

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 15

All organisms living in a habitat and the non-living components which they interact with

Question 16

What is a niche?

Answer 16

The role an organism plays within its community

Question 17

What is interspecific competition?

Answer 17

Competition between members of different species for one or a few of the same resourced that they need

Question 18

What is intraspecific competition?

Answer 18

Competition between members of the same species for all resources they need

Question 19

Which is more intense: interspecific or intraspecific competition?

Answer 19

Intraspecific competition, as members of the same species occupy the exact same niches