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Habitat study
chapter 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | the branch of biology that studies the relationships of organisms to one another and to their environment |
| Ecosystem | all the plants and animals in an area interacting with each other and their environment |
| Habitat | area where a plant or animal lives |
| producers | plants that make their own food |
| Consumers | animals that get their food by eating other plants or animals |
| Herbivore | an animal that eats plants only |
| carnivore | animal that eats other animals only |
| omnivore | animal that eats both plants and animals |
| Decomposers | organisms that feed on dead plants and animals |
| Food chain | list of organisms in which each organism is eaten by the next one in the chain |
| Adaptation | the way that living things change in order to survive in the ecosystem |
| Competition | takes place when two or more organisms require something that is in short supply |
| food web | two or more interconnected food chains |
| interdependence | living things depend on each other in order to survive |
| abiotic factors | non living factors in an ecosystem like light and temperature |
| Quadrat | used to estimate the occurrence of plants and animals in an ecosystem |
| pooter | used to catch insects |
| pitfall trap | used to catch crawling animals such as snails and slugs |
| a line transect | a string marked off at regular intervals and laid out across the habitat to estimate the number of plants present |
| conservation | the wise management of natural resources to prevent living things becoming extinct |
| pollutioin | the addition of unwanted materials to the environment |
| An animal which is conserved | A Bat |
| Compost | made by micro-organisms when they decompose organic matter |
| Name two types of micro-organism | Bacteria and fungi |
| Vermicomposting | is making compost using worms |
| Incineration is a term used to describe | burning substances at high temperatures |
| What are the 3 R's | Reduce, Reuse and recycle |
| When nutrients get into water which plant grows | Algae |
| When a lot of algae grows in water this is called | an algal bloom |
| When the algae die bacteria use oxygen from the water to decompose them. what problem does this cause | the fish die as there is no oxygen |
| community | the animals and plants that live in a particular habitat and share the resources in that area |
| niche | role of an organism in community |
| abiotic factors are | non living factors such as temperature, pH and light |
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