8.1 - Competition and interdependence

• Habitat

  Place where an organism lives
• Population

  All of the organisms of a particular species that live in the same habitat.
• Community

  All the populations of different species that live together in a habitat
• Ecosystem

  The interaction of a community of living organisms (biotic) with the non-living (abiotic) parts of their environment.
• Competition

  An interaction between organisms or species in which they both try to use the same limited resources
• Give 3 resources that animals compete for.

  - Mates

  - Food + Water

  - Territory
• Give 4 resources that plants compete for.

  1. Light

  2. Space

  3. Water

  4. Mineral ions
• All organisms in an ecosystem depend upon one another, with countless complex relationships between them all.

  What do we call this concept?

  Interdependence