← 2.4 The Interdependence of Life
Biotic and abiotic factors
Integrated Science · Grade 9 · about 40 minutes
Every environment has a living half and a non-living half, and each acts on the other.
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- 9 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
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- Competition
- Parasitism and symbiosis
- Saprophytes and decay
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- Temperature and light
- Water and wind
- Pressure, pH and salinity
- Producers, consumers and trophic levels
- Food chains
- Food webs
- Energy flow
- Recycling nutrients
- Human activity: habitat change
- Hunting, poaching and introduced species
- Interdependence: the whole picture