8.1 - Components of an Ecosystem

Question 1

What Is the Meaning of Interdependence?

Answer 1

Means that all organisms in a food web are interconnected, affecting other’s survival in helpful and harmful ways.

Question 2

What exactly is the environment?

Answer 2

All the factors in an organism’s surroundings that affect its survival.

Question 3

What is ecology?

Answer 3

Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with each other and with their non-living surroundings.

Question 4

What is the ecosystem?

Answer 4

A place where the organisms and their physical surroundings form an environment that is different from other environments nearby.

Question 5

What are two main sets of environmental factors influencing organisms organisms in an ecosystem?

Answer 5

1) Abiotic Factors
2) Biotic Factor

Question 6

What is an abiotic factor?

Answer 6

Non-living factors such as air quality and humidity, the amount of sunlight , rainfall, wind, tides, waves, lightning and fires. Abiotic factors are also known as physical factors.

Question 7

What is a biotic factor?

Answer 7

These are living factors such as predators, parasites, fungi, infectious organisms, competition for food and shelter and collaborators (breeding partners)

Question 8

Examples of abiotic factors?

Answer 8

Fire, Rainfall, and Sunlight

Question 9

Examples of biotic factors?

Answer 9

Predators, Parasites, Collaborators