Science 1

Question 1

What does abiotic mean, what is an example?

Question 2

What does biotic mean, what is an example?

Question 3

What is an example of abiotic and biotic things interacting? What is a microorganism

Question 4

What is an ecosystem? What are the two parts of an ecosystem?

Question 5

What is a community of organisms? What is population? What are species?

Question 6

What are the 5 needs of living things?

Question 7

What are nutrients? What is a habitat

Question 8

What are the three biotic interactions?

Question 9

What is competition? What is mutualism and predation?

Question 10

What happens when the predator or prey population increases?

Answer 10

When a predator population increases, prey populations decrease, then the
predators don’t have enough to eat and some die off. Then the prey
population increases and so on

Question 11

Do humans need resources? What do we add to the environment?

Question 12

How is farming and mining harmful?

Question 13

How is the role of an organism determined? What are the 4 roles?

Question 14

What is a consumer? What is a producer? What are detritivores and decomposers?

Question 15

What is a food chain? What do food chains start and end with?

Answer 15

Producers, Consumers

Question 16

What are the 3 types of producers?

Question 17

What is a food web? What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?

Question 18

What percent of energy consumed is used for health?

Question 19

What is a pyrmaid of numbers?

Answer 19

Pyrmaid of numbers show the number of organisms in each level of a food chain or food web.

Question 20

Why are there fewer species further up the pyramid of numbers?

Question 21

What is a closed system? What is a cycle?

Answer 21

Closed system: When matter doesn’t leave a system.

Question 22

Who is the cleanup squad?

Question 23

What does it mean if an ecosystem is sustainable?

Question 24

What is the carbon cycle? What is the water cycle?

Answer 24

Carbon cycle: The carbon cycle is when plants take in carbon dioxide. Next, animals eat
the plants and produce carbon dioxide while they’re processing the food,
they release carbon dioxide by breathing out. After that, organisms die and
release carbon dioxide with the help of decomposers and they release
carbon. When the carbon in the ground starts to build up, this creates fossil
fuels and humans burn that to create more carbon dioxide and the cycle
repeats

Question 25

What is succession? What is primary succession? What is secondary succession?

Answer 25

Primary succession: Species and organisms moving into an ecosystem or environment. Secondary succession: Species and organisms moving into an already existing ecosystem or environment.

Question 26

What does a healthy ecosystem need?

Question 27

What is biodiversity? Can human actions affect it? Why is it important to an ecosystem?

Question 28

What is an endangered species? What is an extinct species?

Question 29

How is habitat loss caused? How can it influence species?

Question 30

What is an invasive species?

Question 31

What is an ecological footprint?

Answer 31

a graph that shows how much land or how many resources someone has.

Question 32

What is a steward? What does it stand for?

Question 33

What is traditional knowledge? How can we use them to conserve our planet?