EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -In ecology, the term “niche” describes the role an organism plays in a community. A species’ niche encompasses both the physical and environmental conditions it requires (like temperature or terrain) and the interactions it has with other species (like predation or competition).

Detailed explanation-2: -An ecological niche is the role and position a species has in its environment; how it meets its needs for food and shelter, how it survives, and how it reproduces. A species’ niche includes all of its interactions with the biotic and abiotic factors of its environment.

Detailed explanation-3: -The three main ecosystem roles an organism can occupy are producers, consumers, and decomposers. Producers can synthesize sugars for energy from an abiotic source in processes such as the following.

Detailed explanation-4: -So aphids and leaf correctly represents an organism and its ecological niche.

Detailed explanation-5: -A habitat is the place where an organism lives while a niche is that organism’s role within that environment. Habitat focuses on how the environment impacts the organism while nich focuses on how the organism impacts the environment.