You give up on the garden and ignore it for a third summer. You notice that two small birch trees sprout and begin to grow among the sunflowers

The birch trees are slower growers
than the sunflowers, but by the fifth summer they start to shade the sunflowers. The birch
trees and the sunflowers are in competition for:
A. water.
B. light.
C. nutrients.
D. All of the responses are correct.
E. None of the responses is correct because
competition only occurs between members of
the same species.


D

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