Adaptations, Interdependence and competition

• What is a stable community ?

  The populations of organisms are in balance with each other and the abiotic recourses around them.
• What do animals compete with each other for?

  • food
  • water
  • mating partners
  • territory
• What do plants compete with each other for?

  • Light
  • space
  • water
  • minerals in the soil
• What is an ecosystem?

  Both the biotic and abiotic parts of an environment and how the interact
• Whag does biotic and abiotic mean?

  • biotic means living e.g. animals
  • abiotic means non - living e.g. water and minerals
• What is a community?

  The population of all the different species that live in the same habitat
• What is a population?

  The total number of an organism living in the same geographical area.
• What is a habitat?


  The environment in which an organism lives.
• List some abiotic factors

  • light intensity
  • water
  • temperature
  • soil PH
  • wind intensity
  • availability of oxygen and carbon dioxide
• what Is interdependence ?


  When all of the different species in a community depend on each other .