Science Unit A

Question 0

Mutualism

Answer 0

This is a relationship in which both species in the relationship benefit

Question 1

Commensalism

Answer 1

This is a relation ship where one species benefit while the other neither benefits nor is harmed

Question 2

Parasitism

Answer 2

This is a relationship in which one species while the other is harmed

Question 3

Consumer

Answer 3

Any organism that has to seek out and eat or consume other living things for food

Question 4

Producer

Answer 4

Are able to make their own food supply the matter and energy they need to survive

Question 5

What is the outcome of photosynthesis?

Answer 5

Glucose/Sugars+Oxygen

Question 6

What is needed for the process of photosynthesis?

Answer 6

Carbon dioxide+water+ light energy

Question 7

What is needed cellular respiration?

Answer 7

Food+oxygen

Question 8

What is the outcome of cellular respiration?

Answer 8

Carbon dioxide, water, ATP(energy)

Question 9

What is an eco system?

Answer 9

Any place where living things interact with other living and non living things in an ecosystem

Question 10

What is biotic?

Answer 10

Living things

Question 11

What is abiotic?

Answer 11

Non living

Question 12

What does population mean?

Answer 12

When a number of species live together in the same area

Question 13

Species

Answer 13

Living things of the same kind that are able to reproduce

Question 14

What is a community?

Answer 14

All the populations of different species that live and interact in the same place form a community

Question 15

What do living things need?

Answer 15

Water, food, energy, oxygen, suitable living conditions

Question 16

What is adaption?

Answer 16

Adaption is how species respond to their environment

Question 17

Can living choose how they will adapt?

Answer 17

No

Question 18

How are we affecting the environment with garbage?

Answer 18

We are starting to use material that cannot be broken down like plastic

Question 19

What are some garbage solutions?

Answer 19

Recycling, composting, incinerating, household hazardous waste operations, and sanitary landfills

Question 20

What is a carnivore?

Answer 20

They consume mainly other animals

Question 21

What is a herbivore?

Answer 21

They consume mainly plants

Question 22

What is the process of photosynthesis?

Answer 22

The roots take in water
Leaves take in carbon dioxide
Leaves absorb Suns energy
The leaves produce oxygen to the air

Question 23

Cellular respiration?

Answer 23

It combines sugar and oxygen to make energy, carbon dioxide and water

Question 24

Scavengers?

Answer 24

An organism that feeds off remains of dead animals that are killed by consumers

Question 25

Decomposers?

Answer 25

A living thing rant breaks down animals and plants or animal and plant waste

Question 26

Why are decomposes essential to all ecosystems?

Answer 26

They keep from being buried by dead organism

Question 27

What is a food chain?

Answer 27

It is a convenient way to show how energy moves among living things

Question 28

What is a primary consumer?

Answer 28

They are usually herbivore like a rabbit eating grass

Question 29

What is a secondary consumer?

Answer 29

It is usually a carnivore like a snake that eats the rabbit

Question 30

What is a tertiary consumer?

Answer 30

They are eaten by other consumers

Question 31

Where do most plants get their energy from?

Answer 31

Most get it from the sun

Question 32

How much energy is stored in the roots ?

Answer 32

10%

Question 33

How much energy does the herbivore use?

Answer 33

They use 90% of the ten percent that they got from the plant

Question 34

How is energy used?

Answer 34

Energy from the sun➡️producer➡️herbivore➡️carnivore then back into the environment

Question 35

What is a food chain?

Answer 35

They show the direction in which energy and nutrients are being passed in the food chain

Question 36

What do food chains usually start with?

Answer 36

Plants and grasses

Question 37

Water Cycle?

Answer 37

Precipitation➡️ Collection ➡️ Evaporation➡️ Condensation

Question 38

What is bioinvasion?

Answer 38

Accidental or planned introduction of a non-native species into a community

Question 39

What is competition?

Answer 39

When different species compete for food water and a space to live

Question 40

What is predation?

Answer 40

An animal that gets its good by killing other organisms

Question 41

What things affect ecosystems?

Answer 41

Bioinvasion, competition, predation, weather

Question 42

What are pioneer species?

Answer 42

The first plant or animal to live in an area

Question 43

What are pioneer species usually?

Answer 43

Grass, weeds, …

Question 44

What is primary succession?

Answer 44

Primary succession occurs in areas where no life exists due to the absence of soil.

Question 45

What plants usually grow in primary succession?

Answer 45

Lichen usually grows first because it is suited to grow in rocky places

Question 46

What is the process of primary succession?

Answer 46

``` Lichen grows it breaks down the rocks the rocks turn to soil, Grass and weeds start to appear then shrubs and trees ```

Question 47

What is a climax community?

Answer 47

A climax community forms when succession starts and remains until another community starts. A climax community is a stable community of a diverse number of species that is not easily replaced by another community

Question 48

What is secondary succession?

Answer 48

It occurs when a community has been destroyed or disturbed by natural occurrences or human activities

Question 49

What happens when people add chemicals to ecosystems?

Answer 49

It kills many species, it is like a chain reaction

Question 50

Why are many species extinct?

Answer 50

Because of the human impact on earth

Question 51

When are some species considered endangered?

Answer 51

Organisms that are rare or In danger of becoming extinct

Question 52

Why were the peregrine falcons dying?

Answer 52

Because of pesticides used in farms that were making the eggshells thin and break

Question 53

How did they solve the peregrine falcons problem?

Answer 53

They created captive breeding environments

Question 54

Why was the ecological footprint created?

Answer 54

They wanted a way to measure the environmental impact of human activities

Question 55

How does ecological footprint work?

Answer 55

They looked at food, housing, transportation, consumer goods and calculated how much energy, materials and land needed