Ecosystems

Question 1

What is a ecosystem?

Answer 1

Ecosystems are made up of living and non-living things in a specific area. The organisms in ecosystems can be classified based on their roles

Question 2

What is a producer ?

Answer 2

Anything that uses light energyfrom the sun to make their own food

Question 3

What is a consumer?

Answer 3

They can’t make their own food. Instead they get their energy by comsuming other organisms

Question 4

What are decomposers?

Answer 4

An organism such as a bacterium or fungus, that breaks down dead tissue, which is than recycled to the environment

Question 5

Role of decomposers

Answer 5

They’re crucial for the ecosystem function of nutrient cycling
Through decomposition, nutrients are put back into the soil.
Plants take up these nutrients as food. These plants may go on to be eaten by consumers.
When plants or consumers die, the nutrients are returned to the soil.

Question 6

Food chain

Answer 6

Shows what eats what in a biological community

Question 7

Food web

Answer 7

Food web show how several food chains overlap with each other

Question 8

Tundra

Answer 8

• Found at high lattitudes in northen Europe, canada
• Winters are very cold and summers are brief and little rainfall
• hardly any trees
• permafrost

Question 9

Polar

Answer 9

• found around the north and south pole
• cold and icy
• dark fpr several months each so growing season is very short

Question 10

Taiga

Answer 10

• found between 50-60 N
• Winters are cold and dry and summers and mild and moist
• trees are coniferous and evergreen

Question 11

Grassland

Answer 11

• Savannah are found between the tropics
• dry and wet seasons rainfall is low
• most vegetation is are grassses with a few trees
• temerature grasslands are found at high latitude

Question 12

Temperate deciduous forest

Answer 12

• mainly found in the mid lattitudes with 4 seasons
• rainfallall year round
• decidious trees lose their leaves in winter to cope with cooler weather