ECOLOGY ACTIVITIES

NAME:……………………………………………………………………..GROUP:………………

1.-What conditions make the Earth a planet with life forms?

2.-Write down the following definitions:

Biotope:

Biocenose:

Ecosystem:

3.-Read the following aspects of an ecosystem and group them in Biotope or Biocenose:

15ºC, 30% humidity, humans, hours of sunlight, the rocks of the soil, bacteria, the air
pollution, fungi, the grass, wolf, latitude, altitude, algae, water, ice, salinity, amount of oxygen,
rain, dogs, cats, roads, houses, hurricanes

Biotope Biocenose:

4.- Explain the relations you can find inside of one species among the different individuals:
5.- Explain the relations you can find among two or more different species:

6.- Define: Producers, consumers and decomposers.

7.- Classify the following organisms in Producers, Primary consumers, Secondary consumers
and decomposers. Oak tree, insectivore bird, lion, cow, grass, fungus, green bacteria, other
bacteria, snails, spiders, shark, horses, daffodils, rose bush, rabbits, linx

Producers Primary consumers Secondary consumers Decomposers

8.- Draw a food chain (not a food web!!) using some of the organisms of the list that appears in
question 6.

9.- Do you think one ecosystem can change? What can affect an ecosystem?