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Exercise Chapter 2

The document contains questions about ecosystems and the relationships between different organisms within ecosystems. It asks about producers and consumers in food chains and webs, nutrient cycles, processes in the water cycle, and the roles of organisms in carbon and oxygen cycles. Questions also cover habitat, population, community, ecosystem, and types of interactions such as competition and predation.

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Exercise Chapter 2

The document contains questions about ecosystems and the relationships between different organisms within ecosystems. It asks about producers and consumers in food chains and webs, nutrient cycles, processes in the water cycle, and the roles of organisms in carbon and oxygen cycles. Questions also cover habitat, population, community, ecosystem, and types of interactions such as competition and predation.

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Chapter 2: Ecosystem

Answer all the questions below.


1. The following is an example of a food chain. Identify the producer, primary consumer,
secondary consumer and tertiary consumer.
Cabbage → Caterpillar → Chicken → Snake

2. Based on the following organisms:


Paddy plant, Grasshopper, Sparrow, Owl, Rat, Caterpillar
(a) construct a food web.

(b) predict what will happen if the paddy plant dies because of a long drought.

3. Name three types of nutrient cycles.

4. Give two processes that change the state of matter in the water cycle.

5. Explain the role of organisms in the carbon cycle and oxygen cycle.
6. Fill in the boxes using the choice of answers given.

Habitat Population Ecosystem Community

(a) A group of goats in a grass field.

(b) A small pond that has lotus plants, grass, a group of


tadpoles, a few fish, ducks and frogs.

(c) A grass field that becomes the living place of a group of


goats.

(d) A tropical rainforest where there are a variety of plants and


animals that are interdependent on one another.

7. Based on the situation below, state the kind of interaction that happens between these
living organisms.
Situation Type of interaction
(a) Two roosters fight to get a mate to reproduce

(b) A cucumber plant wraps around the branch of


a papaya tree
(c) A rafflesia flower grows on the branch of a live
tree

8. Razak found that many of his chickens were eaten by Hawk-Eagles. Razak made a
decision to shoot all the eagles. After a year, the rat population increased and ate all the
chicken feed. This caused chickens to die. Explain the cause for the increase in the rat
population and suggest a way Razak can prevent this from happening.
9. Based on the food web in Figure 1, answer the following questions.

(a) Construct all the food chains from the food web in Figure 1.

(b) Why is grass categorised as a producer?

(c) If a flea lives on the body of a rabbit and sucks its blood, what type of interaction occurs
between the flea and the rabbit?

(d) Predict what will happen if the population of fox in that area caught a disease.

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