Ecosystems

4.1 understand the terms: population, community, habitat and ecosystem.

Ecosystem = community of organisms and habitat.

Habitat
Abiotic factors = non biological factors of an environment.
1. Daylight and Dark
2. Temperature on local, seasonal or anual cycles
3. Rainfall
4.Humidity
5. Slope of the land etc
These are all non biological and so it would be a description of habitat.

Community of organisms
Population of different species interacting

Population = number of individuals of a particular species (each)
Species= organisms that reproduce to give fertile offspring.

Common interaction is feeding
Our Ecosystem is a community of organisms in a particular habitat. The community is made up of different populations of different species interacting within that habitat.