Competition

Sunlight – gives the plant - Needed to make the green - Helps the
energy pigment chlorophyll and to activate Pests enzymes that are
Water – travels up from the some enzymes. Disease needed for
roots. Magnesium
- Lack of it leads to yellow patches photosynthesis.
Nutrients – roots absorb on leaves between veins. Predators: herbivores - Lack of it leads to
these from the soil. yellow leaves with
Carbon dioxide – enters the dead bits.
lead through small holes on Abiotic = non living
the underneath. factors Biotic = living factors
Wind
pH
Potassium
Soil
Temperature Nitrates
Plant growth
and distribution
- Used to make proteins. This picture above
- Lack of it leads to a small shows what can
with yellow leaves. happen to plants that
don’t receive the
right amount of
Phosphates nutrients or any at all.

What adaptations do conifers

- Used to provide phosphorus to help have?
photosynthesis and respiration. - They grow in groups
- Lack of it leads to small roots and purple - They don’t loose their needles.
leaves. - They use less oxygen.

A tree line is often described as the line at which trees stop growing.
These trees stop growing because they are receiving less sunlight which
therefore means they are colder and less hospitable. This means that the
trees at high altitudes are often conifers because these are best adapted
to cold conditions. Biodiversity tends to deep above the tree line due to The tree line
the lack of food and places to hide from predators.