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The simple answer would be resources. There is always a limited amount of resources, and when they are more scarce, competition is more fierce. Few animals (lions and hyenas are one example) compete out of a perceived hatred for each other (people may be another), so competition is usually about survival. Injury often equals death in the wild, so rarely will animals compete physically for food/water/territory/mating rights unless their livlihood depends on it.
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∙ 9y agoCompetition among organisms is part of life and nature, after all there is only so much food, space, and water in the environment. The organism with the best adaptions is the one most likely to survive.
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∙ 12y agoorganisms compete is one way to ensure their future like organisms compete for food to stay out of hunger or male organism fight for a mate to pass on their DNA for their next generation
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∙ 11y agoCompetition occurs because there are limited supplies of resources that are essential for life.
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∙ 11y agoIt's occurs because their resources are scares as in low or out
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∙ 13y agofood
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a mate
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∙ 11y agoTo survive and not die
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What are examples of things that organims have to compete for to meet their needs?
Organisms have to compete for a lot of things in order to meet their needs. Some of the things that they have to compete for are habitats, food, and water.
What species do humans compete with for food space and habitat?
I think the simple answer is that we effectively compete with all other species on the planet (expect perhaps some deep ocean life forms).
What animals make their own food?
Organisms that make their own food from sunlight and/or chemical energy from deep sea vents are the base of every food chain - these organisms are called autotrophs.Source: Enchanted Learningamoeba
What do tigers compete for?
Animals compete for mates by doing many things to impress the possible mate. For example, a bird may show off its colourful wings and some species of bird do a sort of dance to try and win over there mate. Other animals, may compete by fighting till death to try and amaze the potential companion .
What animals do snakes compete with for food?
Different snakes have different dietary requirements, so ratsnakes would not compete with animals which do not eat rats. Some snakes eat insects, and some eat other snakes. Some snakes eat eggs. Depending on their diet, snakes compete with certain birds, mammals, amphibians, and other reptiles, and sea snakes compete with fish and other sea creatures which eat the same prey as they do.
What are some things organisms compete for?
Food
What are examples of things that organims have to compete for to meet their needs?
Organisms have to compete for a lot of things in order to meet their needs. Some of the things that they have to compete for are habitats, food, and water.
What happens when organisms compete for resources?
Some organisms win and some organisms lose.
Why cant population of bacteria or any other biological organism keep increasing exponentially forever?
Organisms start to compete for resources.
What are some competitive organisms?
Competition arises when organisms need the same resources and fight for it. Gorillas, shrimp and plants all compete for reproductive selection, sunlight and food.
Is eubacteria multicellular or unicellular?
Eubacteria are unicellular microorganisms. Some of these organisms are capable of making their own food, while others rely on the environment for their food source.
What type of food might mice and rabbits compete for?
They would probably compete for some grass.
Why do some organisms eat other organism in a healthy ecosystem?
that way no one organism dominates an environment and a healthy food tree can develop
Do all organisms make their food?
No just plants and some micro organisms. They make their own food by photosynthesis. They're called autotrophs. In some extreme environment conditions, some micro-organisms make their own food by chimiosynthesis. These guys are called chimiotrophs. All the other animals need to eat other animals or plants to obtain energy to live. They're called heterotrophs.
Why is it easier for some organisms than others to survive when a food item disappears from their environment?
Those organisms have a wider food variety; for example a bird that eats only flies will not survive as well as a bird that eats flies and beetles, if the flies run out.
How many organism other than human affect their environment?
All organisms have some affect on their environment. For example an organism may deplete their food source but then the population will die out or move on and the environment will recover. Humans are the only animals that control / manipulate the environment to suit themselves.
Why do some organisms survive extreme environments?
Some organisms are better at adaptation to their environment because of their size, their diet, or any number of other reasons.
