ecology 🌎 🦒 🪱

Area where living things exist on earth

Tundra , dessert, marine, coral reefs, temperate grassland

Study of how all living things interact with each other and their environment

All the animals and plants in an area interacting with each other and their environment

Place where an animal or plant lives

Members of the same species living in the same habitat

All the plants and animals living in the same area

Non living factors that effect living things - wind, temperature, rainfall

Interaction between organisms for resources that are in short supply E.g resources like food, water shelter, mates

Living factors that affect living things - competition, predation, interdependence

When a predator hunts and kills prey

Any organism that hunts and consumes another living thing (prey)

Animals hunted and consumed by predators

Is the way that animals and plants depend on each other for survival • animals depend on plants (hare and grass) • animals depend on animals (birds of prey and rabbits) • plants depend on animals (bees and their pollen) • plants depend on plants ( shrubs and trees for shelter) • plants depend on decomposers (worms for the soil)

Organisms that break down dead organic matter ex: earthworm

When an organism has developed characteristics that make it well suited to its envirnment

How an organism has altered its physical body/structure to survive E.g green caterpillar turned green as camouflage protect from predators

What an animal must do to survive

Sleep during the day and hunt at night (bats) (behavioural adaptation)

To move from one place to another (swallows)

Sleep during the winter months

The way that energy and nutrients are passed from one organism to another in an ecosystem.

An organism that eats animals ex: shark

An organism that eats plants ex:rabbit