Ecosystems

Question 1

What’s an ecosystem?

Answer 1

A biological community of interacting organisms and their environment

Question 2

What’s another name for a global eco system?

Answer 2

A biome

Question 3

What’s abiotic?

Answer 3

…made of non-living things

Question 4

What are the three nutrient stores in the nutrient cycle?

Answer 4

Biomass, soil and litter

Question 5

What’s the forest in London we studied

Answer 5

Epping forest

Question 6

What’s the bottom layer of the rainforest?

Answer 6

Shrub layer

Question 7

What’s the second to bottom layer of the rainforest?

Answer 7

Under canopy

Question 8

What’s the second to top layer of the rainforest

Answer 8

Canopy

Question 9

What’s the top layer of the rainforest?

Answer 9

Emergent

Question 10

How does the bolsa survive in the rainforest (helpful characteristics)?

Answer 10

-slippery surface means vines can’t grow up it and animals can’t climb up it
-fastest growing tree

Question 11

How do vines survive in rainforests?

Answer 11

They attach to other plants to climb up them.

Question 12

How do corpse flowers survive?

Answer 12

They look and smell like corpses, attracting insects which land on it and carry their pollen