EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Ecosystem: The collection of all living organisms in a geographic area, together with all the living and non-living things with which they interact. Terrestral Ecosystems (land-based) ecosystems. Natural Community: Populations of different plant and animal species interacting among themselves in an area.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. Some examples of living things are organisms such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ecosystems contain biotic or living, parts, as well as abiotic factors, or nonliving parts. Biotic factors include plants, animals, and other organisms. Abiotic factors include rocks, temperature, and humidity. Every factor in an ecosystem depends on every other factor, either directly or indirectly.