EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Ecosystem: An ecosystem consists of all the biotic and abiotic factors that influence that community.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ecology studies the interactions between biotic factors, such as organisms like plants and animals, and abiotic factors. For example, all animals (biotic factors) breathe in oxygen (abiotic factor). All plants (biotic factor) absorb carbon dioxide (abiotic factor) and need water (abiotic factor) to survive.

Detailed explanation-4: -Community ecology investigates all types of organisms within a defined area, while ecosystem ecology investigates these same organisms plus the abiotic factors that influence them. An ecosystem is both the abiotic and biotic components of an area that interact with each other.

Detailed explanation-5: -A biotic factor is a living thing that has an impact on another population of living things or on the environment. Abiotic factors do the same thing, but they are non-living. Together, biotic and abiotic factors make up an ecosystem.