Learning Focus:
6.12A- Investigate how organisms and populations in an ecosystem depend on and may compete for biotic factors such as food and abiotic factors such as availability of light and water, range of temperatures, or soil composition.
6.12 B- Describe and give examples of predatory, competitive, and symbiotic relationships between organisms, including mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism.
6.12C- Describe the hierarchical organization of organism, population, and community within an ecosystem.