Unit A section 1

Question 1

what is an ecosystem

Answer 1

Any place or location where living and nonliving things interact.

Question 2

what is biotic factors

Answer 2

the living parts of an ecosystem

Question 3

what is an abiotic factors

Answer 3

non living parts of the ecosystem

Question 4

what is species

Answer 4

a group of animals, plants or other living things that share common characteristics and are able to reproduce.

Question 5

meaning of population

Answer 5

a group of organisms of the same species that live in a particular area.

Question 6

meaning of community

Answer 6

all the populations of different species that live and interact in the same place form a community.

Question 7

what’s the needs of living things

Answer 7

water, food nutrients, oxygen, energy

Question 8

what’s a symbiotic relationship

Answer 8

A relationship between different species which benefits either or both species.
There are 3 kinds of symbiotic relationships.

Question 9

what is parasitism

Answer 9

One species benefits while one is harmed

Question 10

what is mutualism

Answer 10

when both agree or have the same

Question 11

what is commensalism

Answer 11

one species benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefit

Question 12

what is an structural adaptation

Answer 12

physical features of an organism

Question 13

What is an Symbiosis

Answer 13

a relationship or interaction between two different organisms that share similar habitat.

Question 14

What is an predation

Answer 14

a relationship between two species of animal in a community, other hunts, kills and the other eats which is the prey

Question 15

what is an behavioural adaptation

Answer 15

something an animal does usually in response to some type of external stimulus in order to survive

Question 16

what is an adaptation

Answer 16

The ability of living organisms to adjust themselves to their surroundings