Fieldguide
Fieldguide
Fieldguide
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| Kategorie | Biologie |
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| Erstellt / Aktualisiert | 12.02.2025 / 21.02.2025 |
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Animal behaviour explains variousbactions an animals has; for example ; finding food . name another behaviour it might be important for you as a guide to be aware of.
Marking territory with glands e.g blue wildesbeest
What is flehmen grimace? provide a brief explanation of your understanding of this
Pulling upper lips to detect by the jacobson organ if anfemale isnready to mate
Briefly state the main difference between an animals territory andnits homerange
A territory main purpose is for mating reproduction
in a home range they are eating,living sleeping
What is the value of anature guide of knowing the water requiremnets of variousbanimal species
To know which animals you could.find at around the waterhole
Give two objeactives for the use of fire as a habitat mangament tool
To clean the bushes /To burn the old vegetation away
to burn unwelcome vegetation away
how many official spoken languages are regognised in southern africa
11
Which antelope indepictet in most of the rock art of the khoisan
Eland
What are the kgalagadi and great limpopo ( for example) known as? what is the prupose of rhese parks
They are known as transfrontierparks
Park between more countries
To give more space to the animals for allows to migrating.
What is an arthropod?
An invertebrate animal with an exoskeleton, and segemented body with jointed legs
What is an invertebrate?
Animals without a backbone or bony skeleton
Name six characteristics of insects
3 distinct body parts,2 pairs of wings some have 1 pair, 6 legs 3 jointed legs,one pair of antennae, mouthparts, a pair of compound eyes
basic types of lifecycles: 3 types? Arthropods
Hemimetabolic,Ametabolic,Holometabolic
Give 3 reasons why insects are so succesful?
Their social way of life, Their metamorphic life cycles, Their ability to fly
Why are insects ecological important?
Pollinators,Decomposing dead organic material, clean the bush
What is mean by aposematic colouring? by insects
warning colouration, for the predator to show im dangerous or poisonous, black,white,yellow,red
Why does insects moult?
They moult to grow
What do millipedes and centipedes feed on?
Millipedes: herbivorous and feed on dead organic material. Centipedes: are carnivorous
What are the three main parts of a fish body consists of?
Head,Trunk,Tail
Give a descrbition of a fish scales and how they protect bony fish
Fish scales are small, hard plates,on the skin. They protect the fish and help with camouflage and swimming
Relationship between the length of a fish and the speed that it can swim at?
10 times their body length per second a fish of 10cm is able to swim 1m/second
Give two factors that effect the distribution of fish ins southern africa?
Water temperature, Presence of food
What is the meaning of the word ecology?
The study of the relationships between living organisms and non living components in their physical environment.
Define an ecosystem
A self sustaining system in which living organisms interact with each other but also with the non living components
Abiotic and Biotic
Biotic are all living components abiotic are all non living components such as fire
Expalin what i meant by the following and give an example a.individual, b.population, ccommunity
a.) 1 organism like 1 ant, b.) groups of individual frome sae species like a colony of ants. c.) all living organisms of an area like grasshoppers,bees,ants
a.) Producer. b.) Primary consumer. c.) Tertiary consumers. d.) Decomposer
a)Producers produce their own food thanks to sun (Plants) b.) Feed on plant (impala) c.) feed on other meat .eating animals (spiders) Decomposers) breaks down the organic matter. funghi or dungbeetle
Give two examples of each: Producer,prim. consumer, sec. consumer, tertiary consumer:
grass and tree, impala and grasshopper, frog and lion, snake and vulture
Why are archaelogical sites in southern africa important?
Provide the only information on the pre colonial existence of humans
Wie geht die Eselbrücke für die 11 Planeten
My (Mercury) Very (Venus)Enthusiastic(Earth) Mother (Mars) Just (Jupiter) Could (Ceres) Serve (Saturn)Us ( Uranus) Nice (Neptune) Pizza (Pluto) Everyday (Eris)
The Fynbos biome is consitered to be synonymous with What?
Cape Floral Kingdom
What 2 key vegetation types make up the Fynbos biome?
Renosterveld, Fynbos
Where you can find the desert biome of southern africa?
A long the northern boarder between Namibia and south africa
How wide is the desert biome of South africa?
~ 150 km
What is the climate in both summer and winter in the indian ocean coastal belt biome?
Thwe climate is very hot and in summer. and no frost. average tem. 20 C
What is the smallest Biome in South Africa?
Forest Biome
What is the largest Biome in South Africa
Savanna
Where would you find the Nama Karoo biome?
In central to south-western South Africa with very low rainfall
Where the vegetation in the Savann Biome is dense, what is it referred to?
It is referred to as Woodland
In the Savanna Biome where the upper layer of vegetation is near the ground this is reffered to as what?
It is referred to as shrubveld. More bush then trees
The topography of the Nama Karoo biome consists of what? please tick 3 correct answers
- Rocky and sandyplaine
- The nama karoo can be found in an altitude between 500m and 2000m above sea level and is covered with lime rich soil.
- it does not have a particulary rich flora
- It is dominated by plains and shrubland mixed with grass.
