Short Answer Questions:
1. Differentiate between producers and decomposers.
2. What are consumers? Explain their types.
3. Describe the pond ecosystem.
4. How do plants depend on animals?
5. How is parasitism different from predation?
6. What is a food web? Why is it important?
Answers
Answer:
Explanation:1) Differentiate between producer and consumer
The producers generate food for themselves and others; consumers do not produce anything, instead eating producers, other consumers or both. Organisms that eat only producers (i.e., plants) are called herbivores. Animals that eat only consumers (i.e., meat) are called carnivores.
2)The four types of consumers in ecology are herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers. Herbivores are consumers who only eat vegetables, plants, grass, or some type of vegetation. An example of an herbivore would be a horse or a cow.
3)A pond ecosystem refers to the freshwater ecosystem where there are communities of organism dependent on each other with the prevailing water environment for their nutrients and survival.
4)Plants are dependent on animals for seed dispersal. Animals also act as agents of pollination and help in the transfer of pollen from one place to another
5)Parasitism is similar to predation in terms of the signs of the interaction coefficients between the two populations, but parasitism differs from predation in that members of the species affected detrimentally (the "host") are seldom killed outright but may live on for some time after becoming parasitized.
6)Food web is an important conceptual tool for illustrating the feeding relationships among species within a community, revealing species interactions and community structure, and understanding the dynamics of energy transfer in an ecosystem.
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