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B9 Retrieval Questions - Year 11 - CS

The document provides definitions for key terms related to ecosystems and material cycles, including abiotic and biotic factors, mutualism, quadrats, belt transects, parasites, non-indigenous species, reforestation, potable water, processes related to the carbon and nitrogen cycles, desalination, chlorination, filtration, nitrogen fixing bacteria, nitrifying bacteria, denitrifying bacteria, decomposers, crop rotation and why it benefits soil nitrate levels.

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B9 Retrieval Questions - Year 11 - CS

The document provides definitions for key terms related to ecosystems and material cycles, including abiotic and biotic factors, mutualism, quadrats, belt transects, parasites, non-indigenous species, reforestation, potable water, processes related to the carbon and nitrogen cycles, desalination, chlorination, filtration, nitrogen fixing bacteria, nitrifying bacteria, denitrifying bacteria, decomposers, crop rotation and why it benefits soil nitrate levels.

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B9 Ecosystems and Material Cycles

Retrieval Questions - Year 11 Combined Science

What are non-living factors called? Abiotic factors

What are living factors called? Biotic factors

What are the square frames used in field-work Quadrats


techniques called?

Give examples of abiotic factors Temperature, light, water, pollutants

Give examples of biotic factors competition, predation

What is the term that describes when two organisms live mutualism
closely together in a way that benefits them both?

What type of sampling is done with quadrats? random sampling

What type of sampling is done with belt transects? systematic sampling

What is an organism that feeds on another organism (the A parasite


host) while they are living together?

What are non-indigenous species? organisms that are not found naturally
in the area

What is reforestation? replanting forests where they have


been destroyed

What does potable mean in reference to water? it is safe to drink

Name a process that releases carbon dioxide into the Combustion, respiration
atmosphere

Name a process that removes carbon dioxide from the Photosynthesis


atmosphere

What is the term for producing drinking water from salty desalination
(sea) water

What is added to water to kill pathogens? chlorine

What is the name of the process to remove large solids filtration


from water?
What do nitrogen fixing bacteria do? Convert nitrogen gas into nitrates

What do nitrifying bacteria do? Convert ammonia into nitrates

What do denitrifying bacteria do? Convert nitrates into nitrogen gas

What is the role of decomposers in the nitrogen cycle? They convert waste matter into
ammonia

What is the process where plants such as peas, beans or Crop rotation
clover are grown in a field every few years?

What is the benefit of crop rotation? Increases nitrate levels in the soil

Why do leguminous plants (beans, peas, clover) increase The root nodules contain nitrogen fixing
nitrate levels in the soil? bacteria which convert nitrogen gas into
nitrates.

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