Competition

Use the PREFIXES intra-; inter-; co-; e/ex-; in/im-; eco-; and the word-stems: species; system; habit; migrate; clude; exsist; port; to create the needed words

1 bring into a country ……

2 live together ….

3 not include …

4 leave the area where you live to live somewhere else ……

5 exist together ….

6 a community of plant and animal species living in the same environment …..

7 between different species …

8 within a particular species …

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All plants and in an ecosystem compete for light, space, water and minerals from the soil. Animals in an ecosystem compete for food, mates and their territory. Organisms which have more of these resources tend to grow more healthily and are more likely to have offspring. Competition can be interspecific or intraspecific depending on whether organisms from different species or the same species are competing for resources.

1.What do the animals and plants compete for?

2. Why do the animals and plants compete?

3.What means intraspecies and interspecies competition?

Use the listed words in the gaps. There are more words than needed.

fights; males; offspring; season; competition; rut; drive; mates

Animals also compete for 1_______. This is essential so they can pass on their genes to their 2 ________. Animals have evolved to have a natural 3 ______to reproduce, and this competition often results in 4 ______. This is seen each year when animals like red deer group together at the start of the mating 5_______. Large male deer fight with each other by locking antlers and pushing hard, which is called a 6_____.

Which word means : neizdošanās

• dominant

• failure

• winner

• pressure

• achievement

Which word means : uzvara

• winner

• to fight

• to win

• victory

Which word means: sasniegums

• competition

• achievement

• to achieve

• confidence

  
  

Which word means: veiksmīgs

• powerful

• success

• to achieve

• successful

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