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What is an ecosystem?
An ecosystem includes all the living things and non-living things in a place.
What are artificial ecosystems?
Ecosystems modified by human activity.
Say 5 types of terrestrial ecosystems
forest or woodlands, coast, tundra, grassland, savannah, rainforest, desert.
Say 4 types of aquatic ecosystems.
River, lake, ocean, sea, wetlands.
Say 4 types of artificial ecosystems.
City, town, village, farm, reservoir.
What are the two elements of an ecosystem?
Biotope and biocenosis
What is the biotope of an ecosystem?
The non-living things of an ecosystem: air, water, soil, relief, light and temperature.
What is the biocoenosis of an ecosystem?
The living things in an ecosystem: animals, plants, fungi, protoctista and monera.
What is a population?
A group of organisms of the same species that live together in one place.
What is a community?
A collection of different populations that live together in one place.
What are the two types of relationships between organisms in an ecosystem?
Intraspecific and interspecific relationships.
What are intraspecific relationships?
Relationships between individuals of the same species.
Is nutrition an example of intraspecific or interspecific relationship?
Interspecific relationship.
What are interspecific relationships?
Relationships between members of different species.
Is reproduction a type of intraspecific or interspecific relationship?
Intraspecific relationship.
What are the 5 trophic groups?
Producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers and decomposers.
