Competition

Question 1

Definition of habitat?

Answer 1

Place where organisms live

Question 2

Definition of pouplation?

Answer 2

All the organisms of one species living in a habitat

Question 3

Definition of community?

Answer 3

Population of different species living in a habitat

Question 4

Definition of ecosystem?

Answer 4

interaction of the community of living organisms with the non-living parts of the enviroment

Question 5

What is interdependence?

Answer 5

When each species depend on eachother for things like food, shelter, pollunation and seed dispersal

Question 6

What does the change of interdependence mean?

Answer 6

it can have major effects on the ecosystems

Question 7

What happened to the stonefly larvae?

Answer 7

Loads of the population were killed because of being sensitive to polution

Question 8

What effect did this have on the blackfly larvae?

Answer 8

They will have a less competition for algae and they will be more likely to be eaten by predators

Question 9

What effect did this have on the water spider?

Answer 9

They will have less food

Question 10

What effect did it have on the stickleback?

Answer 10

Less food

Question 11

What happens in some ecosystems?

Answer 11

Species and enviromental factors are in balance so that the population sizes are roughly constant these are called stable communities