U6: Living Together

Key Learning Points:

• An organism is a living thing
• A population is a group of similar organisms that lives and reproduce together in the same place
• A habitat is the place where an organism or a population live, reproduce and finding food and shelter
• A community refers to many populations staying together in the same habitat
• All organisms in a community are interdependent, that is, they depend on each other for survival
• Be able to identify the types of organisms in the various habitats and communities

Examples of interdependence include:

• Green plants provide oxygen to animals during photosynthesis
• Animals and other plants provide carbon dioxide to the green plants during respiration
• Plants provide food and shelter to animals
• Animals' waste droppings fertilise the soil to help plants grow healthily

Terrariums:

• These are transparent enclosures where a mini-habitat is created for selected plants and animals of the same community
• The main purpose is to allow us to examine how each of the organisms affect/depend on each other for survival
• The observations are quire accurate as a terrarium roughly represents what that would take place in a real community / habitat