Ecology

1) What is an Ecosystem ?
The name given to all the organisms that live in the same area/environment.
All the organisms in an ecosystem are interdependent.
All organisms depend on plants.

2) What is a Food Chain ?
This is the pathway that shows how energy and nutrients pass from one organism to another in an ecosystem.
Producer - all plants are producers
Consumer - all animals are consumers.

3) Can you describe the different types of consumers ?
Primary - an animal that eats producers (or plants)
Secondary - an animal that eats primary consumers.
Tertiary - an animal that eats secondary consumers.

4) Can you give some examples of the different animal groups ?
Mammals - give birth to live young
Birds - lay eggs and have feathers
Insects - have 6 legs and 3 body parts (head, thorax, abdomen)

5) What is an Extremophile ?

6) What is an Apex Predator ?
A carnivore with no predators.

7) What are Biotic factors ?

8) What are Abiotic factors ?

9) What is a Biomass Pyramid ?