Ecosystems

Question 1

Define producers, consumers and decomposers

Answer 1

Producers- uses sunlgiht energy to produce food
COnsumer- gets energy by eating other organisms
DEcomosoer- organism that gets energy by breaking down dead material

Question 2

What is the nuterient cycle?

Answer 2

1) When dead material decomposes, nutreients are reliased into the soil
2) The nutrientts are then taken up from soil by plants. The plants may be eating by consumers
£) When plant or consumer die the nutrients are relaeased ito the soil

Question 3

What are the things that happen in SLapton LWey Reed beds

Answer 3

Reed roots bind the soil together, preventing erosion

BActeris decomoposes dead material

Question 4

WHat is a food chain for slapton ley reed beds

Answer 4

Common reed - Moth larva - Eel - Bittern

Question 5

How does chaing one part of the reed bed have an impact on other parts?

Answer 5

Drought dries up pools - Insect larvae die - Fish and grof populations decrease - Bittern numbers decline