adaptation to enviourmnet Flashcards
biotic factors
living factors which depend on
- feeding
- prey
- symbaiotic
- mutualistic/ interdependant relatioships
abiotic factors
- non living physical factors
- has an influence on specific adaptations of organisms in their habitat
biome
a large natural area of flora and fauna
population
a group of organisms- same specis- same area
community
group of populations living together and interacting
herbivore
primary consumers feed on producers (bison eating grass)
predation
predator eating prey
interspecific competition
2 or more species using the same resources reducing availability (lion and hayena eating prey)
mutualism
2 species living closely (birds picking the teeth if crocodile)
parasitism
parasite living inside or outside another species (roundworms living in racoon)
pathogenicity
pathogen living inside of a host- causing disease (tubercolosis in budgers)
endemic species
species which occour naturally in an ecological niche
invasive species
those which were introduced by humans