Ecosystems

Question 1

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 1

A system in which organisms interact with each other and with their environment

Question 2

What is abiotic?

Answer 2

Non-living things

Question 3

Give examples of abiotic things.

Answer 3

• Air
• Water
• Heat
• Rocks

Question 4

What is biotic?

Answer 4

Living things

Question 5

Give examples of biotic things

Answer 5

• pLants
• Insects
• Animals

Question 6

What is Flora?

Answer 6

Plants

Question 7

What is Fauna?

Answer 7

Animals

Question 8

What do food chains show?

Answer 8

Where energy is transferred and where it goes next

Question 9

What is a producer?

Answer 9

Organisms that collect their energy from the sun

Question 10

What do producers turn their energy from the sun to?

Answer 10

Glucose

Question 11

How do producers create glucose?

Answer 11

Through photosynthesis

Question 12

Give examples of producers.

Answer 12

Plants;
Grass
Trees

Question 13

WHat are consumers?

Answer 13

Organsims that collect theri energy by eatng porducers or other consumers

Question 14

What are herbivores?

Answer 14

Animals that only eat plants

Question 15

What are omnivores?

Answer 15

Animals that plants and meat

Question 16

What are decompsers?

Answer 16

Organisms that breakdown plant and animal materisl

Question 17

Give examples of decomposers.

Answer 17

• earthworm

- fungi

Question 18

Where are polar ecosystmes usually located?

Answer 18

Above theequator

Question 19

Give examples of where polar ecosystems might be.

Answer 19

Antartica
noth pole
Greenland

Question 20

What is the climate like in polar ecosystems?

Answer 20

Long cold winters 
short sumners
-46 to - 26 degrees
250mm of rainfall every year 
Wet seasons

Question 21

What type id flora a re in polar ecosystems?

Answer 21

• Alpine like flowering
• Mosses
• Grasses
• shrubs

Question 22

What type of fauna would be in polacr ecosystems?

Answer 22

• polar bears
• wolves
  foxes
  reindeers
  walruses
  wha;es

Question 23

What adaptations fo the fauna in polar ecosystems have?

Answer 23

Fur

Question 24

Where are tropical rainforest useally located?

Answer 24

Aroufnd the equator

tropical of cancer and capricorn

Question 25

GIve examples of where tropical rainforest would be.

Answer 25

Africa | SOuth america

Question 26

What is the climate like in tropical rinforests?

Answer 26

2 to 28 degrees humid 12hrs daylight 12hrs darkness 2000mm of rainfall yearly §

Question 27

What type o flora is in a tropical rianforest?

Answer 27

Trees flowers bushes

Question 28

What type of fauna is intropical rainforest?

Answer 28

- Birds - snakes - insects - ants - orangutan Tocans Jaguars

Question 29

What adaptations do the fauna have in the tropical rsainforest?

Answer 29

- camoflaguw - noise fur paws

Question 30

Where are coral reefs usually located

Answer 30

Tropica of cancer and capricorn§

Question 31

Give examples of where you can find coral reefs

Answer 31

Bermuda Bahams Australoa Western Atlantic Ocean

Question 32

What is the climate like in coral reefs

Answer 32

water = 18 degreees | Water is shallow and clear

Question 33

What floral can be found in coral reefs?

Answer 33

Coral polyps plants related to jellyfish seagrass turtle grass

Question 34

What fauna can be found in coral reefs?

Answer 34

parrotfish Starfish clam

Question 35

Where are Grasslands usually located?

Answer 35

Between latitudes 5 & 30 degrees

Question 36

Give examples of where yoi cna find grasslands.

Answer 36

Central Africa Parts of Venezuela Mexico northern highlands

Question 37

What is the climate like in grasslands?

Answer 37

25 degrees long dry seasons short wet season

Question 38

What fauna can be found in grasslands?

Answer 38

Hoofed animals herbivores antelope elephants

Question 39

What flora can be found in grasslands?

Answer 39

Grass spiky pompous grass baobab tree

Question 40

What adaptations do the fauna have?

Answer 40

thick trunks keeping moisture hoofed drought resistant fire-resistant

Question 41

Wher are temperate forset usually located?

Answer 41

40 to 6 degrees north of the equator

Question 42

Give examples of where you could find temperate forset.

Answer 42

Plains of North America velds of Africa steppes if euro Asia

Question 43

What is the climate like in temperate forests?

Answer 43

warm summers | mild winters

Question 44

What flora is there in temperate forests?

Answer 44

``` Willow tree oak tree tussock grass sunflowers wild indigo ```

Question 45

What fauna is there in temperate forests?

Answer 45

Rabbits large herbivores bison

Question 46

Where are deserts usually found?

Answer 46

around the tropical of cancer and Capricorn

Question 47

Give examples of where deserts are located.

Answer 47

Africa | Asia

Question 48

What is the climate like in deserts?

Answer 48

36 - 50 degrees = day | freezing during the night

Question 49

What flora is in the desert?

Answer 49

Cactus

Question 50

What fauna are there in the desert?

Answer 50

meerkats camels rattlesnakes

Question 51

What adaptations are needed for the desert?

Answer 51

thick hair spikes thick/long eyelashes