Definitions

• What does interdependence mean?

  The network of relationships between different organisms within a community
• What is a community?

  An interacting group of various species in a common location
• What’s a population?

  All the members of a single species that live in a habitat
• What is a habitat?

  The place where an organism lives
• What is an ecosystem?

  A community and it habitat
• Intra- is?

  Within

  
  
• Inter- is?

  Between
• What is biotic?

  Living
• What is non-biotic?

  Non-living
• Give an example of a biotic factor?

  - Food availability

  - New predators

  - New pathogens

  - One species outcompeting another so the umbers are no longer sufficient to breed
• Give an example of a Abiotic?

  - Light intensity

  - Temperature

  - moisture levels

  - Soil pH and mineral content

  - Wind intensity and direction

  - Carbon dioxide levels for plants

  - Oxygen levels for aquatic animals