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Earth and Life

Science
Quarter 2 – Module 10:
Interaction and
Interdependence
Lesson
Interaction and
1 Interdependence
Every living thing relies upon one another and their environment. No living creature
could make due all alone without relying upon different living beings and its
environment. Interaction and interdependence are two important relationships in
nature. Ecology is the branch of biology that deals with the study of these
relationships of interaction and interdependence between living things and their
environment. The area wherein living things associate with each other and with their
environment is known as the ecosystem. Association among species help shape
ecosystem.

What’s New

The ecosystem comprises of all living and non-living things that interact with each
other in a given territory. Every living piece of an ecosystem, for example, animals,
plants, and other living being are called biotic factors. Living organisms interact in
the ecosystem to obtain food in order to survive. Their interactions can be used to
classify them as to producers, consumers and decomposers. The non-living parts of
an ecosystem are called abiotic factors. Living creatures in a biological system can't
be separated independently from the abiotic or non-living components in their
natural surroundings.

What is It

Biotic Potential and Environmental Resistance


Biotic potential and environmental resistance are the factors that influence the
population growth. Biotic potential is the rate at which life forms reproduce when
they have perfect conditions that would advance effective generation. It is likewise
characterized as capacity of a populace of a species to propagate under perfect
conditions, for example, adequate food and water supply, no diseases, suitable
habitat and no predators. The biotic potential among creatures’ changes from species
to species. The following factors determine biotic potential:
1. numbers of offspring per reproduction
2. chances of survival age of reproduction
3. age at which propagation starts
4. how frequently every individual replicate

What’s More
Environmental resistance refers to the factors that can limit the
growth of a populace. It includes predators, competitors, disease, lack of food and
water and unsuitable habitat.
The biotic potential and environmental resistance influence the carrying capacity
which is defined as the maximum number of individuals that an ecosystem can
support.
Biotic and abiotic factors that prevent the persistent development of a population like
food, water and space are called limiting factors.

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