Topic 7 - Competition

Question 1

What is a habitat?

Answer 1

The place where an organism lives

Question 2

What is a population?

Answer 2

All the organisms of one species living in a habitat

Question 3

What is a community?

Answer 3

The populations of different species living in a habitat

Question 4

What are abiotic factors?

Answer 4

Non-loving factors of the environment

Question 5

What are biotic factors?

Answer 5

Living factors of the environment e.g. food

Question 6

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 6

The interaction of a community of loving organisms with the non-living parts of the environment

Question 7

Organisms need things from the __ and other organisms in order to ___. Organisms compete with other species (and the same) for the same ___.

Answer 7

Environment, survive and reproduce, resources

Question 8

What is interdependence?

Answer 8

Where each species in a community depends on another species for things such as food ,shelter, pollination, seed dispersal etc

Question 9

What does interdependence mean for an ecosystem?

Answer 9

Any majour change in the ecosystem can have far-reaching effects

Question 10

What are stable communities?

Answer 10

Communities where species and environmental factors are in balance so the population size are roughly constant