12.3 What Types Of Interactions Affect The Stability Of An Ecosystem

Question 1

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 1

It is made up of the interactions between a community and its physical environment

Question 2

Population

Answer 2

Organisms or the same kind living in the same environment

Question 3

Community

Answer 3

Different populations of plants and animals living and interacting in a particular environment make up a community

Question 4

What are the different types of interrelationships in an ecosystem?

Answer 4

Predator-prey relationship
Mutualism
Parasitism

Question 5

what do predators and preys have to hunt and avoid being caught?

Answer 5

hunting strategies e.g. mimicking prey

prey have adaptations e.g.

• high speed
• small size
• effective camouflage
• defensive body parts (i.e. horns)
• some mimic unpleasant objects to fool their predators

Question 6

what is mutualism

Answer 6

the relationship in which 2 or more organisms support or benefit one another
e,g, one organism provides another with protection in exchange for food

Question 7

what is a parasite and what does it do and benefit

Answer 7

an organism that causes harm to another organism (Known as its host) without killing it
parasite benefits by obtaining its food or nutrients from the body of its host