The cards Question What is an ecosystem? Tap to flip Answer A community of organisms, such as plants and animals, that interact with one another and with their non-living (abiotic) environment. Question In an ecosystem, what is a producer? Tap to flip Answer An organism that can absorb energy from the sun through photosynthesis. Question In an ecosystem, what is a consumer? Tap to flip Answer An organism that gets its energy by feeding on other organisms (animals and/or plant matter). Question What is a food chain? Tap to flip Answer The connections between organisms (plants and animals) that rely on one another for their food. Question What is a decomposer? Tap to flip Answer An organism, such as a bacterium or a fungus, that breaks down dead plant or animal tissue or waste. Question What do nutrient cycles show? Tap to flip Answer How nutrients transfer between the different stores within an ecosystem. Question Is an ecosystem made up of plants and animals only? Tap to flip Answer No. It also includes the non-living parts of the environment, such as soil and climate, which the living things interact with. Question What are the biotic components of an ecosystem? Tap to flip Answer Its living components, such as plants and animals. Question What are the abiotic components of an ecosystem? Tap to flip Answer Its non-living components, such as soils and climate. Question What is a food web? Tap to flip Answer A complex interconnection of food chains within an ecosystem. Question What is a habitat? Tap to flip Answer The natural home or environment in which an animal or plant lives. Question What is biodiversity? Tap to flip Answer The variety of plants and animals in the world or in a particular habitat. Question Give one example of a small-scale ecosystem found at College Lake. Tap to flip Answer Any one of: lake, marshland or chalk grassland. Question Are changes that affect ecosystems always caused by people? Tap to flip Answer No. Natural events such as storms also affect them, for example a storm could fell trees that were a habitat for other species. Question What is a biome? Tap to flip Answer A large-scale global ecosystem, for example a tropical rainforest. Question In geography, what is climate? Tap to flip Answer The average weather conditions, such as rainfall and temperature, recorded over a 30-year period. Question What is latitude? Tap to flip Answer Distance north or south of the Equator. Question Which way do lines of latitude run on a map? Tap to flip Answer East–west. Question What is the broad pattern of the world's biomes? Tap to flip Answer Broadly latitudinal, with tropical rainforests near the Equator and tundra near the poles. Question What gives each biome its distinct characteristics? Tap to flip Answer Its specific climate. Question Are all areas of the same biome physically connected? Tap to flip Answer No. A biome may occur on different continents at the same or a similar latitude, such as the tropical rainforest biome. Question In geography, what is a distribution? Tap to flip Answer The spread, which may have a regular pattern, of something such as a type of vegetation. Question On a large scale, what is the main factor affecting the distribution of biomes? Tap to flip Answer Climate. Question Give one local factor that can affect local biome distribution. Tap to flip Answer Any one of: altitude, rock and soil type, or drainage. Question What is altitude? Tap to flip Answer Height above sea level. Question In geography, what is drainage? Tap to flip Answer The distribution, storage and movement of water in the environment. Question Are the plants and animals the same everywhere within a biome? Tap to flip Answer No. Small-scale variation occurs within global biomes because of local factors. Question What is a geographic information system (GIS)? Tap to flip Answer A computer system that captures, analyses and displays geographic data to help understand spatial patterns. Question What is a webmap? Tap to flip Answer A digital map available online, usually interactive, which can be created or saved by the user online ('in the cloud'). Question What is spatial distribution? Tap to flip Answer The spread of data across an area, creating spatial patterns that geographers try to describe, explain and analyse. Question In GIS, what is a filter? Tap to flip Answer The selection of some data in a GIS layer to show spatial patterns more clearly. Question Does a GIS basemap need to be attractive? Tap to flip Answer No. It is a backdrop for the data; a very bland basemap is sometimes most effective because it contrasts with the layer of spatial data. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Geography Unit Ecosystems, biomes and the biosphere Exam boards AQA England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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