Mariah Tyson
1/27/25 5th
1. What is an ecosystem ? An ecosystem is a community of
living organisms and their physical environment interacting
together. Environment involves both living organisms and the
non-living.
2. What are abiotic and biotic factors ? Biotic and abiotic
factors are what make up the ecosystem. Biotic factors are
living things within an ecosystem; such as plants, animals,
and bacteria while abiotics are non-living components; such
as water, soil and atmosphere.
3. List 5 abiotic and 5 biotic factors. Biotic factors include
anything living or once alive. include plants, trees, shrubs, etc,
animals, kangaroos, etc, bacteria, E. coli, etc eukaryotic
microbes, amoebas, etc, and fungi mushrooms, etc. Abiotic
factors are all non-living things that occur in an ecosystem.
Water, temperature, altitude, solar radiation, and oxygen are
five examples of abiotic factors. In addition to these, other
physical and chemical factors that affect living beings in
ecosystems are soil nutrients.