Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Management

Question 1

What is the definition of Biosphere?

Answer 1

The zone where all life is found. Extends 3m below ground and about 30m above ground and up to 200m deep in oceans.

Question 2

What is the definition of biome?

Answer 2

a very large ecosystem, it has similar climatic conditions, flora and fauna

Question 3

What does abiotic mean?

Answer 3

anything to do with the non-living environment

Question 4

What are some examples of abiotic features?

Answer 4

soil,
sunlight
and precipitation

Question 5

What does biotic mean?

Answer 5

Anything to do with the living environment

Question 6

What is an example of a biotic feature?

Answer 6

flora and fauna

Question 7

What is a finite resource?

Answer 7

A resource that will eventually run out

Question 8

What is the definition of exploitation?

Answer 8

the act of using natural resources

Question 9

What is a resource?

Answer 9

a stock or supply of something that is useful to people

Question 10

What is overexploitation?

Answer 10

the act of using too much of something, especially a natural resource

Question 11

What is the definition of Biodiversity?

Answer 11

the range of living organisms present in an area

Question 12

What is the definition of a food chain?

Answer 12

a series of steps in which energy is obtained and used by living organisms

Question 13

What is the definition of a food web?

Answer 13

a series of interconnected food webs

Question 14

What does interdependent mean?

Answer 14

something relies on something else

Question 15

What is an adaptation?

Answer 15

a special characteristic that allows an organism to survive in a particular environment

Question 16

What are the 3 types of adaptions?

Answer 16

Behavioural
Physiological
Structural

Question 17

What is a behavioural adaptation?

Answer 17

responses made by an organism that help it survive/reproduce
(the way an animal acts or behaves)

Question 18

What is a physiological adaptation?

Answer 18

a body process that helps an organism to survive/reproduce

Question 19

What is a structural adaptation?

Answer 19

a feature of an organism’s body that helps it to survive/reproduce
(physical features of an organism)

Question 20

What is a good?

Answer 20

physical products and items provided by the ecosystem

Question 21

What is a service?

Answer 21

Roles/jobs that the ecosystem does-things that we can’t touch

Question 22

What is deforestation?

Answer 22

the removal of a forest, where land is converted to non-forest use

Question 23

What is eutrophication?

Answer 23

Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water

Question 24

What is governance?

Answer 24

the act or process of governing or overseeing the control and direction of something

Question 25

What is ecotourism?

Answer 25

tourism that minimises damage to the environment and benefits local people

Question 26

What is commodity value?

Answer 26

How much different goods and services are worth

Question 27

What is a moorland?

Answer 27

land which is not intensively farmed, found in upland areas of the UK, tends to have acidic, peaty soils, there are few trees (plants are small shrubs such as heather)

Question 28

What is heathland?

Answer 28

tends to be open countryside in lowland areas, plants are small shrubs such as heather and gorse- there are a few silver birch trees

Question 29

What are wetlands?

Answer 29

areas of low lying land, predominantly wet and boggy, some have been drained (somerset levels and the fens). 'Wetland' also refers to small ponds and river estuaries.