Physical factors that affect organisms and their distriubution
- Created by: Clare Parry
- Created on: 08-05-15 12:38
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- PHYSICAL FACTORS THAT AFFECT ORGANISMS
- Availability of nutrients
- lack of nutrients can limit growth
- Availability of oxygen
- needed for respiration
- few organisms survive in low oxygen
- Availability of carbon dioxide
- carbon dioxide is needed for photosynthesis
- Availability of water
- few organisms survive without water
- Amount of light
- green algae and plants need light for photosynthesis
- Temperature
- too hot or too cold can kill
- adaptations needed to survive extreme hot or cold
- Availability of nutrients
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