Ecosystems

Question 1

First order consumer

Answer 1

In a food chain, the position of a herbivore

Question 2

Second order consumer

Answer 2

The animal feeding on the first order consumer

Question 3

Third order consumer

Answer 3

The animal feeding on the second order consumer

Question 4

Herbivore

Answer 4

A plant eating animal

Question 5

Carnivore

Answer 5

An animal that feeds on other animals

Question 6

Omnivore

Answer 6

An animal that eats on plants and animals

Question 7

Photosynthesis

Answer 7

The process by which plants make their food

Question 8

Word equation for photosynthesis

Answer 8

Carbon dioxide + water (sunlight & chlorophyll) produces glucose + oxygen

Question 9

Biotic factors

Answer 9

A living factor of the environment

Question 10

What are the 5 biotic factors

Answer 10

Competition 
Predation 
Mutualism 
Parasitism 
Commensalism

Question 11

Abiotic factors

Answer 11

A non living factor of the environment

Question 12

What are the 6 abiotic factors

Answer 12

Water 
Temperature 
Fire 
Light 
Soil type
Gas levels

Question 13

Competition

Answer 13

When 2 or more organisms rely on the same environmental resource

Question 14

Predation

Answer 14

Behaviour of one animal feeding on another

Question 15

Symbiosis

Answer 15

The close relationship of 2 dissimilar organisms

Question 16

Mutualism

Answer 16

A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit

Question 17

Commensalism

Answer 17

A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits but is unharmed

Question 18

Parasitism

Answer 18

A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and one is harmed

Question 19

Decomposer

Answer 19

Break down dead organic matters and wastes, recycle matter for the producers to reuse they also allow matter to cycle in all ecosystems - fungi and bacteria

Question 20

Food web

Answer 20

A chain of organisms and animals that all rely on each other.

Producer
1st order
2nd order
3rd order

Question 21

Adaptations

Answer 21

A feature that an organism has that enables it to survive

Question 22

Interdependence

Answer 22

Relationship between organisms where one

each affects the others survival

Question 23

Ectothermic

Answer 23

Animals that obtain body heat from outside their body

Question 24

Endothermic

Answer 24

Animals that can generate body heat internally

Question 25

Structural adaptation

Answer 25

A body part that helps an organism to survive - a ghosts bat wings allows it to fly

Question 26

Behavioural adaptations

Answer 26

A feature of an organisms habitat, actions or way of life that helps it - the mouse hides in a burrow in the day, helping the mouse avoid dehydration

Question 27

Functional adaptations

Answer 27

A feature of the way an organisms body works - increasing heart rate is a functional adaptation

Question 28

Consumer

Answer 28

Organisms that require a ready made source of food

Question 29

Community

Answer 29

All the living organisms in a an ecosystem

Question 30

Abiotic factors that impact frogs

Answer 30

Temperature

Natural disasters

Question 31

Biotic factors that impact frogs

Answer 31

Predators
Lack of food source
Habitat destroyed

Question 32

Energy flow in ecosystems

• how does it flow
• how is the food material available
• fact

Answer 32

• energy flows from one organism to another as it is eaten
• the food material available to each organism is only that which is in the body cells of the organism it eats
• there is little energy available to the organisms by the time it reaches the end of the chain