LIVING AND

NON-LIVING
INTERACTIONS
 OVERVIEW
The world contains a wide diversity of physical
conditions, which creates a variety of environments
where living things can be found. In all these
environments, organisms interact and use available
resources, such as food, space, light, heat, water, air,
and shelter. Each population of organisms, and the
individuals within it, interact in specific ways that are
limited by and can benefit from other organisms.
 LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:

Differentiate biotic and abiotic components ;

Discuss the three types of direct interaction; and
Identify and analyze environmental issues and
concerns
 Community Interactions
1. Competition happens when organisms of the same
or different species attempt to use an ecological
resource in the same place at the same time. The
competition is generally observed for acquiring some
limiting abiotic factor in the environment.
 Community Interactions
2. Predation is an interaction where one organism
captures and feeds on another organism. Predator
refers to the organism that kills and consumes and prey
is an organism turns into someone’s dine.
 Community Interactions
3. Symbiosis refers to any relationship in which two
species live closely together. Species always live
together in communities, but some species interact in a
much more intimate way. We call these more-intimate
interactions a symbiosis.
 Life processes
Living things carry out three main life processes.

Interaction
Nutrition
Reproduction
 Food Chain
Living things carry out three main life processes.
 Producers vs. Consumers
The difference between producers and consumers, in
this scheme, is about what you might assume from
the names of each. The producers generate food for
themselves and others; consumers do not produce
anything, instead eating producers, other consumers
or both.
 Producer Essentials

Producers are green plants. Producers' biology allows

plants to manufacture their own food.
 Consumer Essentials

Consumers are animals. Consumer biology means

that they cannot make their own food and must eat
other organisms for nourishment. As noted,
herbivores eat only plants, carnivores eat only other
animals and omnivores eat both.
 Levels of Consumers
Consumers occupy different levels within food webs or food
chains. In simplest terms, primary consumers are one level
above producers and are the herbivores. Secondary
consumers are one level up and eat herbivores; tertiary
consumers are one level up still and eat herbivores and
secondary consumers. At the very highest level are top
predators, which no animals hunt for food under ordinary
conditions
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