B2.4 Organisms and Their Environment

Question 1

What is a habitat?

Answer 1

A place where an organism lives

Question 2

What is distribution?

Answer 2

Where organisms are found in a particular area e.g. in a part of a field

Question 3

What factors affect distribution? (6)

Answer 3

Temperature, availability of carbon dioxide, availability of water, availability of nutrients. availability of oxygen and amount of light

Question 4

How can you study the distribution of organisms? (2)

Answer 4

1. You can measure how common an organism is in two or more sample areas and compare them
2. You can study how the distribution changes across an area