Ecology Competition

• What is a habitat


  A habitat is where organisms live
• What is a Population

  A population is where all organisms of one species living in the same habitat
• What is a community


  A community is all the populations of different species living in a habitat
• What is it meant by Biotic Factor

  A biotic factor is the living factor of the environment e.g food
• What is it meant by an Abiotic factor

  An Abiotic factor is a non-living factor of the environment e.g Temperature
• What is the definition of an Ecoystem

  Interaction of a community of living organisms (biotic) with the non living (abiotic) parts of the environment
• What is a stable community

  All the species and environmental factors are in balance with each others that the population size remains constant
• What is Sampling 


  Sampling is a subset of organisms
• What is the main two types of Sampling

  • Abundance
  • Distribution
• What is it meant by Abundance

  Abundance is how many organisms there are in that habitat
• What is it meant by Distribution

  Distribution is the amount of organisms
• What is biodiversity

  Biodiversity is the variety of different species of organisms on earth or within the ecosystem
• Why is high biodiversity important

  It makes sure that the ecosystems are stable
• What are fishing Quotas

  Fishing quotas are a limit of number and the size of fish that can be caught preventing them from being overfished
• What is the purpose of big net sizes

  Help the smaller fish to escape, allow them to grow and reproduce maintaining a stable community
• what do net sizes help with

  Reduces the number of discarded and unwanted fish