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Science(Ecology)
Question | Answer |
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What is Ecology? | The study of relationships between plants, animals and their environment |
What are ecosystems? | All the plants and animals in an area interacting with each other and their environment. E.g Grassland |
What is a habitat? | An are where a plant or animal lives. E.g Field |
What are producers? | Plants that make their own food |
What are consumers? | Animals that get their food by eating plants or animals |
What are herbivores? | Animals that eat plants only |
Give and example of a heribivore | Slug |
What are carnivores? | Animals that only eat other animals |
Give an example of a carnivore | Fox |
What are omnivores? | Animals that eat both plants and amimals |
Give an example of an omnivore | Humans |
What are decomposes? | Organisms that feed on dead plants and animals |
What is competition? | When two or more organisms require something that is in short supply |
What is a food web? | Two or more interconnected food chains |
What is interdependence? | When living things depend on each other for survival |
What is conservation? | The protection and wise management of natural resources to prevent living things becoming extinct |
What is pollution? | The addition of unwanted materials to the enviroment |
Give an example of air pollution | Burning fossil fuels(oils,gas) |
Give an example of water pollution | Oil spills, badly treated sewage waste |
Give an example of a food chain | Grass--->rabbit---->fox |
What is a pooter used for? | Sucking organisms into a jar |
What is a quadrat? | A square frame that is thrown at random to estimate the number of organisims in habitat |
What is a line transect? | A sting rope or tape that is marked off at regular intervals to estimate the number of plants present in a habitat |
What are the three R's? | Reduce,reuse and recyle |