Living together

What is an organism?

A living thing

What is a population?

It consists of all the organisms of the same kind that live and reproduce in a particular place.

What is a habitat?

The population size is the total number of organisms in a population adults and young must be counted when counting the population size.

A place where a population of organisms lives.

The place where the organisms find everything the need such as food, water, air, space and shelter to live and reproduce.

Types of habitats

Field

Garden

Pond

Single plant

Mangrove swamp

Leaf litter

Seashore

Forest

Rotting log

Can be natural or artificial

What is an environment?

Organisms are affected by conditions in their surroundings.
The conditions can be either living or non-living factors. The non-living factors in an environment include light, temperature, air, water and soil. The living factors in an environment are all the living things that an organism interacts with. These include the availability of food and kinds of organisms present.