Ecosystems

Question 1

What is an ecosystem

Answer 1

A natural system made up of plants, animals and the environment

Question 2

What are the biotic components of an ecosystem

Answer 2

Living components such as plants and animals

Question 3

What are the abiotic components of an ecosystem?

Answer 3

Non - living components environmental factors such as wind, light, climate (rainfall, temp.)

Question 4

What’s a biome

Answer 4

Global - scale ecosystem

Question 5

List the 7 biomes

Answer 5

Temperate rainforest, Coniferous forest, Polar, Tundra, Savahnna, Temperate Grassland, Mediterranean

Question 6

What’s a producer

Answer 6

Producers make their own food by converting energy from environment into sugars; usually plants convert the sun’s light

Question 7

What’s a consumer

Answer 7

An organism that gets its energy from other organisms by eating them

Question 8

What’s a decomposer

Answer 8

Organisms, such as fungi, that break down other organic material; releasing the nutrients back into the soil

Question 9

What’s the nutrient cycle?

Answer 9

When decomposers break down organic matter, they release nutrients back into the soil, which new organisms can use to grow. This is nutrient cycling.

Question 10

What’s a food chain

Answer 10

Shows the direct links between producers and consumers in the form of a simple line

Question 11

What’s a food web

Answer 11

Shows interrelationships between producers and consumers in more complex way