Competition and Niche

The full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which they use those conditions.

Niche

The animals food. How they get their food. What other animals eat

them!

A animal’s NICHE includes:

What do they eat?

How do they get their food?

What PREDATOR do you think eats them?

Examples: Warbler Bird

One organism captures and feeds on

another organism. The organism that does the killing and

eating is the PREDATOR.

Predation

ANY NECESSITY IF LIFE! Water Food Light Area an animal lives in.

What is a Resource?

No two animals can have

the same niche in the same habitat at the same time.

Competitive Exclusion Principle

Symbiosis

A relationship in which TWO

species live closely together.

Symbiosis

Mutualism Commensalism Parasitism

3 Types of Symbiosis

Both species BENEFIT.

Example: Flower and Insect. Feeding and Pollination.

Mutualism

One animal BENEFITS and one is

not helped or harmed.

Example: Elephant and birds

Commensalism

One organism lives on or inside

the other and HARMS that organism.

Example: Fleas and Dogs

Parasitism

Fleas = PARASITE (causes HARM)Dog= HOST (is HARMED by the flea)

DOGS and FLEAS