Definitons

Question 1

Biodiversity

Answer 1

Number of different plants and animals in an erea

Question 2

Ecosystem

Answer 2

Dynamic interaction between plants, animals and organisms and their environment working together as a functional unit

Question 3

Biomimetics

Answer 3

Uses knowledge of adaptions from other species to improve the design of manufactured items

Question 4

Physiology

Answer 4

Study of how normal functions of living organisms work

Question 5

what is the IUCN

Answer 5

International union for conservation of nature

Question 6

Diurnal

Answer 6

Day/ night cycle

Question 7

Endemic

Answer 7

A species that is native to a particular geographical area

Question 7

Anoxic

Answer 7

An environment without oxygen

Question 8

Insolation

Answer 8

Amount of solar radiation reaching a given area

Question 9

Proxy

Answer 9

Data that can be used to represent the value of something when it cannot be directly measured. (Preserved physical characteristics of the past)

Question 10

Carbon sequestration

Answer 10

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations reduced by photoautotrophs

Question 11

Autotroph

Answer 11

Producers/self feeding organisms: photautrophs (energy from sun), chemautrophs (energy from chemicals)

Question 12

Dendrochronology

Answer 12

Tree dating, determine age of wood and construct past ideas of environmental conditions

Question 13

Stratosphere

Answer 13

Contains ozone layer, above troposphere but below mesosphere