Interactions in the Environment

Question 1

What are the diffrent trophic levels?

Answer 1

• Producers (all green plants that produce their own organic food)
• Consumers (mainly animals depended on producers or other consumers)
• Decomposers (bacteria and fungi)

The diffrent types of consumers include:
* primary consumers (herbivores)
* second consumers (carnivores)
* tertiary consumers (carnivores eating secondary consumers)

Question 2

What are the five types of interation in communities?

Answer 2

• Predation (predators)
• competition (Two or more individuals compete for food, water and so on)
• Mutualism (symbiotic relationship where both organisms benifit)
• Commensalism (symbiotic relationship where one benifits where the other neither beniifits or is harmed)
• Parasitism (symbiotic relationship where one benifits and other is harmed)

Question 3

What are the two types of competition?

Answer 3

• intraspecific=takes place between individuals of the same species
• Interspecific= takes place between two diffrent species

Question 4

What are the two diffrent types of parasits?

Answer 4

• Ectoparasites=lives on the external surface of host’s body
• Endoparasites= lives inside host’s body

Question 5

What are some social organsation strategies?

Answer 5

• herds or swarms as anit-predation strategy
• packs as a successful hunting strategy
• Sharing of tasks

Question 6

What is Ecological succession?

Answer 6

Ecological successions refers to the sequence of communities, where one community replaces another over times, resulting in long-term changes to the ecosystem.

These changes conitnue until a complex, stable ecosystem developes. this is known as the climax of succesion

The first plants and animals are known as the pioneers or pioneer communities