Ecosystems

Question 1

What is an abiotic factor?

Answer 1

Non living things affecting the environment such as the weather and the sun.

Question 2

What is a biotic factor?

Answer 2

Living things that affect the environment such as Decomposers, Producers and Consumers.

Question 3

What is a Producer?

Answer 3

Organisms that produce their own food and energy.

Question 4

What is a Consumer?

Answer 4

An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

Question 5

What is a Decomposer?

Answer 5

Fungi and bacteria that break organic material into smaller bits.

Question 6

What is a food chain?

Answer 6

A food chain shows what eats what in a particular habitat.

Question 7

What is a food web?

Answer 7

A food web is a formation of food chains to make a more complex food chain

Question 8

What is a nutrient cycle?

Answer 8

Nutrients from the soil get absorbed by a tree for example, the tree gets the nutrients from the roots then the tree can grow leaves then photosynthesise, then the tree or leaves could fall and it then the nutrients go back into the ground