Ecology

Question 1

What is ecology

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Ecology is the study of plants, animals and their environment, and the relationship between them.

Question 2

Environment

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The environment is everything that surrounds an animal or plant (for example rocks, air, water and soil)

Question 3

Habitat

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The habitat is the place where an animal or plant lives

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Woodland habitat

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Each habitat has its own community of organisms. For example hedgehogs, snails, foxes and
Primroses belong in the woodland habitat

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Interdependence

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Interdependence is how organisms depends on each other for their survival. Example: buttercups depend on bees, bees need buttercups

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Ecosystem

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All the plants in an area interacting with each other and their environment. Examples: desert, tropical rainforest to the seashore.

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Producer

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A producer is a plant that makes its own food e.g grass and dandelions

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Consumer

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Animals that get their food by eating plants and other animals

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Herbivore

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An animal that eats plants only e.g rabbits, slugs and sheep

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Carnivore

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An animal that only eats other animals e.g hawks, ladybirds and foxes

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Omnivore

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An animal that eats both plant and animals e.g badgers, thrush and blackbirds

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Decomposer

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Organisms that feed on dead plants and animals e.g earth worms and bacteria

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Food chain

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A food chain shows how one organism eats another and so on

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Feeding levels

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The position of an organism is the food chain is called it’s feeding level

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Sun

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This is where any energy in the food chain comes from

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Food web

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A food web is two or more interconnected food chains

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Competition

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Occurs when two or more organisms seek a resource that is limited

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Plants compete

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Plants compete for light, water, minerals and space

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Animals compete

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Animals compete for food, shelter, territory and mates

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Adaptations

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Features that give an organism a better chance of surviving in their habitat

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The dandelion

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A plant that has king roots so it reaches below for water and they compete for space because they are able to spread their seeds in the wind

Question 22

The hedgehog

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Hedgehogs have a great sense of smell, they’re spiked for protection and because of their colour they’re easy to camouflage

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Conservation

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The protection, preservation and careful use of natural resources

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Our natural resources

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Land,rivers,seas,plants and animals

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Protection of natural resources

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If we don’t protect the environment the plants ans animals will become extinct

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Pollution

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Polluting is adding unwanted wastes to the environment causing damage to it

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Air pollution

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Caused by smoke, dust and harmful gases. Most come from cars, busses and factories

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Acid rain

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Damages plants and buildings (carbonic acid and Sulphuric acid)

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Soil pollution

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Soil pollution is caused by pesticides, artificial fertilisers and acid rain

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Water pollution

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Rivers, lakes and seas are polluted by fertilisers, sewage, oil and detergents

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Fertilisers (river pollution)

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Fertilisers seep into rivers and cause too much plant growth, bacteria populations boom as they feed on dead plants and no oxygen is left for fish

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Incineration

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Incinerating = burning the waste, this can release dangerous gases into the atmosphere, difficulties with location as nobody wants it near them

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Landfill

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Burying the waste in the ground damages soil, rivers and ground water it also attracts unwanted rodents that cause disease and landfills smell and.

Question 34

Recycling

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Reduced damage to the environment

Question 35

Reduce

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Using your own bag instead of disposable plastic bags