AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Abiotic (all non-living components, such as minerals, the environment, soil, water, and sunshine) and biotic (all living components) components make up an ecosystem, respectively.

Detailed explanation-2: -An ecosystem is a community made up of living and nonliving things interacting with each other. Nonliving things do not grow, need food, or reproduce. Some examples of important nonliving things in an ecosystem are sunlight, water, air, wind, and rocks. Living things grow, change, produce waste, reproduce, and die.

Detailed explanation-3: -The living parts of an ecosystem include animals (consumers), plants (producers), and fungi and micro-organisms (decomposers). The nonliving, or abiotic components of an ecosystem include the sun’s energy, water, air (atmospheric gases), and rock, which makes up the landforms.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ecosystem: The collection of all living organisms in a geographic area, together with all the living and non-living things with which they interact.

Detailed explanation-5: -These “things” can be categorized into two different types – Living and Non-living Things. All living things breathe, eat, grow, move, reproduce and have senses. Non-living things do not eat, grow, breathe, move and reproduce. They do not have senses.