Adaptations and competition

Key Words

Habitat - place where an organism lives.

Population - all the organisms of one species living in a habitat.

Community - the populations of different species living in a habitat.

Abiotic factors - non-living factors of the environment.

Biotic factors - living factors of the envrionment.

Ecosystem - community of living and non-living organisms.

Food web - a diagram of what organisms eat.

Adaptations - features or characteristics that have changed in order for an organism to survive.

Food chains - show what's eaten by what in an ecosystem.

Consumers - organisms that eat other organisms.

Preator - consumers that hunt and kill other animals.

Also see Biodiversity