What are the two main components of an ecosystem?
Abiotic and Biotic
These are the living things in the ecosystem.
Biotic factor
What is the difference between an ecosystem and a habitat.
A habitat is a place where an animal or organism lives. An ecosystem is the interactions of living organisms with themselves and their surrounding environment.
What are the primary decomposers in the ecosystem?
Bacteria, fungi, and certain invertebrates that break down dead organic matter.
What is a species?
A group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile offspring.
It is a group of cells that have similar structure and that function together as a unit.
Tissue
It is the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
habitat
It is the basic unit of life.
Cell
What are the levels of organization in ecosystems.
Species, population, community, ecosystem
Algae, plankton, bacteria, plants, orals, and fish are examples of what factor?
Biotic Factor
These are the non living things in the ecosystem.
Abiotic factor
What is a biosphere?
The thin layer of air, and, and water on or near the Earth's surface in which all living things exist
What is a population?
It is a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same place.
It is a group of tissues in a living organism that have been adapted to perform a specific function.
Organ
What are the types of consumers?
herbivores, carnivores, omnivores
What is an organism?
An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
What is a community?
Different populations interact in a specific ecosystem.
Sunlight, water, air, humidity, pH, temperature, salinity, precipitation, is an example of what factor?
Abiotic factor
What is predation?
When one species kills and eats another species.
What human activities affect this ecosystem?
Agriculture, urban development, pollution, conservation efforts, or other human influences.