Ecology

Question 1

What are the 7 indicators of life?

Answer 1

Movement 
Respiration
Sensitivity 
Growth
Reproduction
Excretion
Nutrition

Question 2

What are branched keys used for?

Answer 2

For identifying living things

Question 3

What is a branch key?

Answer 3

Questions you answer about different things then follow the branches to identify the living things

Question 4

What are microscopes?

Answer 4

Microscopes are devices that magnify small things to see them better

Question 5

Describe the microscope pieces from top to bottom

Answer 5

Eyepiece lens
Focussing knob
Objective lenses
Stage
Clip
Mirror

Question 6

What is an objective lens?

Answer 6

The lenses that magnify

Question 7

What is the stage?

Answer 7

Where the sample goes

Question 8

What are plants and animals?

Answer 8

Living organisms made of cells

Question 9

What are cells?

Answer 9

So small you need a microscope

Question 10

List the parts in an animal cell

Answer 10

Nucleus
Cytoplasm
Cell membrane

Question 11

Name the parts of a plant cell

Answer 11

Nucleus
Vacuole
Cytoplasm
Chloroplast
Cell membrane 
Cell wall

Question 12

What is a cell membrane?

Answer 12

Controls what gets in and out of the cell

Question 13

What is a nucleus?

Answer 13

Controls all the cell activities

Question 14

What is a cytoplasm?

Answer 14

Where chemical reactions take place

Question 15

What is a cell wall?

Answer 15

Gives the cell shape and support

Question 16

What is a vacuole?

Answer 16

Stores sugary water

Question 17

What is a chloroplast?

Answer 17

Traps sunlight to make food

Question 18

What does biodiversity mean?

Answer 18

The variety of living things in a specific area

Question 19

What does biotic mean?

Answer 19

Living things

e.g. predators, bacteria and competitors

Question 20

What does abiotic mean?

Answer 20

Non-living things that aren’t dead but aren’t alive

e.g. sea, rain and the sun

Question 21

Name three ways we can measure abiotic factors

Answer 21

Thermometer
Light intensity
Moisture metre

Question 22

What is a quadrat?

Answer 22

A 100 square grid that shows how much abundance there is for one specific thing

Question 23

What does abundance mean?

Answer 23

The number of squares with the specific thing in it

Question 24

What can plants and animals do?

Answer 24

Adapt to their surroundings

Question 25

What does animal and plant adaption mean?

Answer 25

Making changes to their cells to increase chances of survival

Question 26

How does a cactus adapt to its surroundings?

Answer 26

Its mostly made of water and has spikes so if animals try to eat it will protect itself

Question 27

What does global warming mean?

Answer 27

Its the climate change in the whole world

Question 28

What are food chains?

Answer 28

A chain of different plants and animals that eat eachother

Question 29

What do the arrows show on a food chain?

Answer 29

The direction of the energy flowing

Question 30

What percent of energy is passed on at each link?

Answer 30

10 percent

Question 31

What are herbivores and name 3

Answer 31

Animals that only eat plants | Rabbits, giraffes and zebras

Question 32

What are carnivores and name three

Answer 32

Animals that only eat meat | Sharks, lions and tigers

Question 33

What are omnivores and name 3

Answer 33

Animals that eat plants and animals | Monkeys, bears and humans

Question 34

What are consumers?

Answer 34

Animals

Question 35

What are producers?

Answer 35

Plants

Question 36

What is a pyramid of biomass?

Answer 36

A more accurate way of showing the quantity of energy needed

Question 37

What is biomass?

Answer 37

All living particles