GCSE Ecology revision

Define biodiversity

• The process by which carbon & oxygen cycle among plants, people & animals, & the environment.
• The variety of plants & animals living in one area.
• The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area; land that is covered with trees and shrubs.

What does not produce carbon dioxide?

• Photosynthesis
• Burning Fossil Fuels
• Animal respiration
• Plants decaying

How do living organisms return carbon to the atmosphere in the carbon cycle?

• respiration and photosynthesis
•  decomposition and respiration

In the carbon cycle, producers take in the gas __

• carbon dioxide
• oxygen
• nitrogen
• carbon monoxide

How does the carbon in grass become part of a lion?

• The lion eats the grass
• Carbon from grass doesn't end up in a lion. 
• The carbon ends up in the lion's food chain. 
• The lion breathes in carbon given out by the plant

All of the carbon in existence is continually recycled in the carbon cycle

• True
• False

Organisms that do not decompose can be buried and become what?

• water
• nutrients
• air
• fossil fuels

The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

• Biology
• Lithology
• Ecology
• Farmacology

The non-living part of an ecosystem

• Ocean
• Lava Flow
• Birds
• Abiotic

The living part of an ecosystem

• Biotic
• Abiotic
• Mother Earth
• Flowers