1. How do organisms avoid competition?

2. Unit Standards
5.L.4B.1
Analyze and Interpret data to explain how organisms obtain their energy and classify organisms as producers, consumers (including herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore), or decomposers (such as Fungi, Bacteria insects and molds).
5.L.4B.2
Develop and use models of food chains and food webs to describe the flow of energy in an ecosystem.
5.L.4B.3
Construct explanations for how organisms interact with each other in an ecosystem (including predators and prey, and parasites and hosts).
5.L.4B.4
Construct scientific arguments to explain how limiting factors (including food, water, space, and shelter) or newly introduced organisms can affect an ecosystem.

3. How do organisms avoid competition?
An organism avoids competition by having a specific territory and a unique role within its ecosystem.

4. How do organisms avoid competition?
Habitat- the physical place where an organism lives and hunts for food.

5. How do organisms avoid competition?
Some creatures have very small habitats. Pill bugs, for example, spend most of their time under and around a stump or rock.
A bee’s habitat is larger. It is not only the hive where the bee lives. It also includes the fields and forests where the bee searches for flowers.

6. How do organisms avoid competition?
Niche- is the special role that an organism plays in a community.

7. How do organisms avoid competition?
Two birds might live in the same location and eat the same food.
But one bird is active at night while the other is active during the day.
Therefore, the two birds occupy different niches.

8. How do organisms avoid competition?
In a similar way, two birds might share the same rain-forest habitat but eat different foods. One bird eats plants while the other eats insects.

9. How do organisms avoid competition?
In a similar way, two birds might share the same The two birds occupy two different niches in the community.
For example, honeycreepers are a group of related birds found on the same islands of Hawaii.
These birds all share the same habitat, but are able to avoid competing with each other by eating different foods.