ecology

• Interdependence


  the way in which plants and animals depend on each other to survive
• Organisms adapt to their environment

  • Physical adaptations - features/characteristics of organism help it survive
  • Behavioural adaptations - what an animal does to survive
• Animals classified based on diet

  • Consumers
  • Producers
  • Decomposers
• Human activities that affect ecosystems

  • Over hunting and fishing
  • Over harvesting
  • Pesticides
  • Water, air and land pollution
  • Destruction of habitats
  • Introduction of invasive species
  • Deforestation
• Habitat Study


  1. Mapping

  2. Environmental factors

  3. Collect Organisms

  4. Identify Organisms

  5. Estimate Population and Distribution
• biosphere


  the area where living things exist on earth
• ecosystem


  all the animals and plants living in an area interacting with each other and their environment
• ecology


  the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment
• habitat


  a place where an animal or plant lives
• population


  members of the same species living in the same habitat
• community


  all the animals and plants that live in the same area
• predator


  an organism that hunts and consumes another living thing
• prey 


  hunted and consumed
• abiotic factors 


  non-living factors that affect living things
• biotic factors


  living factors that affect living things
• competition


  the interaction between organsims for resources that are in short supply