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Question 1

What is an environment?

Answer 1

The surroundings or conditions in which an organism lives

Question 2

What does biotic mean, with examples?

Answer 2

A factor that makes up a part of an organism’s living environment
- competition
- predation

Question 3

What does abiotic mean, with examples?

Answer 3

A factor that makes up part of an organism’s non-biological/living environment
- pH
- temperature
- rainfall

Question 4

What does biosphere mean?

Answer 4

The regions of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere that supports life/is occupied by living organisms

Question 5

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 5

A dynamic system involving the interactions between all the living and non-living components of a particular area

Question 6

What is a population?

Answer 6

A group of individuals of the same species that occupy the same habitat at the same time and are able to interbreed

Question 7

What is a community?

Answer 7

All the populations of different species living and interacting in a particular place at the same time

Question 8

What is a habitat?

Answer 8

The place where an organism normally lives and is characterised by the physical conditions and other types of organisms that are present
There are many habitats in an ecosystem

Question 9

What is a niche?

Answer 9

Describes how an organism fits into an environment, referring to where the organisms lives and what its role is there