Animal and Plant Adaptations

• what do plants compete for?

  light,space,water,nutrients/minerals
• what do animals compete for?


  Food,mate,territory,shelter
• Define Interspecific

  Competition between 2 different species
• give an example of interspecific competition


  Lion Vs Tiger
• define intraspecific

  competition between the same species
• give an example of intraspecific competition 


  Lion Vs Lion
• define abiotic


  non-living factors that affect where an organism lives
• give an example of an abiotic factor


  pH of soil

  amount of rainfall

  temperature
• define biotic 


  living factors that affect where an organism lives
• give examples of biotic factors


  Predators

  Prey

  Mates
• what are the three types of adaption

  structural

  behavioural

  functional
• define structural adaptation 


  the shape or colour
• define behvourial adaptation 


  what an organism does to survive
• define functional adaptation


  how it is adapted to such process as reproduction