B7 Interdependence

• An habitat is the place where an organism lives
• A population refers to all of the organisms of a particular species that live in the same habitat.
• In ecology, what is a community?


  All the populations of different species that live together in a habitat.
• An ecosystem is the interaction of a community of living organisms (biotic) with the non living (abiotic) parts of their environmen.
• Competition is an interaction between organisms or species in which they both try to use the same limited resources.
• 4 resources that animals compete for?

  Food

  Water

  Mates

  Territory
• 4 resources plants compete for?

  Mineral ions

  Water

  Light

  Space
• All organisms in ecosystem depend upon one another. This is called..

  Interdependence
• grass -> rabbit -> snakes -> hawks

  If snakes fall, what will happen to rabbit population?

  Increase