Biotic factors (4.7.1.3) | AQA GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy (8464) — Biology — Foundation | KnowledgeSet

Biotic factors

Biology (Combined Science) · GCSE · AQA · AQA GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy (8464) — Biology — Foundation · Specification point · 4.7.1.3 · Ecology · Adaptations, interdependence and competition

Interpreting community interaction data

Factors affecting population growth

Competition in communities

Small populations and breeding

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4.7.1.3 Biotic factors

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$Students should be able to explain how a change in a biotic factor might affect a given community given appropriate data or context. Biotic (living) factors which can affect a community are: availability of food new predators arriving new pathogens one species outcompeting another so the numbers are no longer sufficient to breed.$	$WS 1.2$
$Students should be able to extract and interpret information from charts, graphs and tables relating to the effect of biotic factors on organisms within a community.$	$MS 2c, 4a Extract and interpret information from charts, graphs and tables.$