Animals with a backbone, including mammals, amphibians, reptiles, bony fish and birds
Invertebrates
Animals without a backbone, including molluscs, annelids, arthropods and nematodes
The Plant Kingdom
Flowering
Non-flowering
Flowering plants
Produce flowers for reproduction, e.g. grass plants and sunflowers
Non-flowering plants
Do not produce flowers, reproduce using spores, e.g. ferns and mosses
Naming species
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Binomial system
Uses the organism's genus and species to create its name, avoids confusion from common names, uses Latin
Morphological adaptation
Structuralchange which gives an organism a greaterchance of survival in its habitat
Behavioural adaptation
The way an organism reacts to its environment which aids its survival
Things organisms compete for
Food
Territory
Mates
Things plants compete for
Light
Water
Minerals
Interspecific competition
Competition between differentspecies
Intraspecific competition
Competition between members of the samespecies
Other factors that change population size
Predation
Pollution
Disease
Biodiversity
A measure of the variety of differentspecies and the numbers of each of those species in a particular area
Biodiversity is important for humans as a source of food, industrialmaterials and the potential for newmedicines
Ways to conserve and protect biodiversity and endangered species
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
Captive breeding programmes
National parks
Seed/sperm banks
Local biodiversity action plans
Quadrat
Used to measure biodiversity
Assumptions made when using capture-recapture data include no death,immigration or emigration, and that the marking technique doesnotaffectchancesofsurvival
Predator
An animal that hunts and eats another species for food
Prey
An animal that is eaten by a predator
Pest
An organism that eats a crop plant
Native species
An organism that lives in the country
Alien Species
An organism introduced into a country in which it does not normally live.
Invasive Species
An alien organism that has had a negative effect on the native species.