ecology and key ideas

• Habitat is where an organism lives.
• Population is where all the organism's of one species live in one habitat.
• Abiotic factor is non living factors of the environment eg temperature.
• Biotic factors is living factors of the environment eg food.
• A ecosystem, is the interaction of a community of living organism's with their physical environment.
• Plants compete for light,space,water,mineral from the soil to survive
• Animals compete for territory, food, water and mates.
• Interdepence- is when each species depend on the other species for food,shelter, and other resources.
• Abiotic factors are light, temperature, CO2 ,wind, oxygen, soil.
• Biotic factors- new predators ,competition, pathogens, food
• Organism's adapt structural ,behavioural, functional.