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Biology Form 5 Science

Chapter 6: ECOLOGY

Basic ecological Concept
  1. Habitat:  this is the locality in which an organism is best adapted to live-two type of habitat are possible aquatic  and terrestrial habitat. Aquatic habitat are does that involve water such as fresh water like lake, rivers and marine water like seas, oceans. Terrestrial habitat are land habitat such as grass land soil, wood land
  2. Species: a species is a group of similar organism which are able to breath together and produce fertile offspring
  3. Population: this is the number of individual of a particular specie of different species that live together in the same habitat and affect each other
  4. Ecological succession: it is the establishment of a series of plant community in a particular habitat, over a period of time resulting in the establishment of the climax community.
  5. Ecological niche: it is the exact place where an organism live in a habitat and what it does there. There are certain factors that may affect an ecosystem this factors are : the biotic and abiotic factors. The abiotic factors is also known as the physical factor
par Claude Foumtum