Questions and Answers
Ecology
1.
A type of wetland featuring grasses, reeds and other plants in shallow water.
Marsh
2.
All living and nonliving parts of an environment found in a specific location.
ecosystem
3.
The combined portions of Earth in which all living things exist is called the
biosphere
Match biotic and abiotic factors.
6.
The non-living aspects of an Ecosystem are
abiotic factors
7.
The original source of almost all energy in most ecosystems is
sunlight
8.
Permanently frozen subsoil found in the tundra is called:
permafrost
9.
A hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
foodchain
10.
Ffit of a species living under specific environmental conditions is called:
niche
11.
Large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat is:
biome
12.
Green plants are ( mostly)
producers
13.
The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle is
litosphere
14.
A mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close is:
savannah
15.
Which organism in this food chain would be considered a secondary consumer?
small fish
16.
Which organism in this food chain would be considered an apex predator?
grey wolf