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Ecology - Science JC
Question | Answer |
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What is ecology? | The study of the interactions between plants, animals and their environment. |
What is a habitat? | An area where a plant or animal lives. |
What is a food Web? | Consists of two or more interconnected food chains. |
What is a consumer? | Animals that get their food from plants or other animals. |
What are decomposers? | Organisms that feed on dead plants and animals eg bacteria. |
What is a niche? | It is its role in a community, how it fits in and how it reacts with other organisms. |
What is a community? | All the animals and plants that live in a particular habitat or area and share the resources in that area. |
What is a herbivore? | An animal that only eats plants. |
What is a carnivore? | An animal that only eats other animals. |
What is a omnivore? | An animal that eats both plants and animals. |
What is a food chain? | A list of organisms in which each organism is eaten by the next one in the chain. |
What is interdependence? | Living things depend on each other for survival. |
Name an example of interdependence. | A plant relies on an insect for pollination while the insects relies on the plant for food. |
What is adaptation? | A structure or habit that helps and organism to survive in its own habitat. |
Name an example of adaptation in animals. | It is brown for camouflage. Long ears so it can detect the presence of it's predetors. |
Name an example of adaptation in plants. | Some plants have a nasty taste to deter predetors eg giant hogweed. |
When does competition take place? | It takes place when two or more organisims require something that is in short supply. Plants and animals compete for space, light, food and water. |