B18 - Adaptations

• • Animals compete for: territory, mates, food and water
  • Plants compete for: space, nitrate ions from the soil, light and water
• Interspecific competition is competetion between different species whereas intraspecific is competition within the same species
• Abiotic Factors are non-living factors which effect an environment such as: soil pH, light intensity, wind, moisture, Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen Levels and temperature
• Biotic Factors are living factors that affect an environment such as: new predators, food availibility, competition and new pathogens
• • Population: organisms of the same species living together in a habitat
  • Ecosystem: all the organisms living in a specific area and the non-living components the organisms interact with
• • Sturctural Adaptations: physical features on an organism's body
  • Behavourial Adaptations: the response and behavious of an organism
  • Functional Adaptations: unseen processes such as photosynthesis