Question

 

1. Organisms all live in complex environment that include:
2. Abiotic components –
3. Biotic components –
4. These environmental factors limit the geographic range (distribution) and the abundance ofspecies.

• Ecology is studied on several levels of organization
  • Landscape –
  • Ecosystem –
  • Community –
  • Population –
  • Organism –
  • *Biome –
  • Biosphere –
    • What are Four major abiotic components make up climate –
    • Climate patterns can be described on two scales
      • macroclimate –
      • microclimate –

Answer 1

iv) Ecology is the study of interactions among organisms and their biophysical environment which includes both biotic and abiotic components.

v) Halophiles- The organism which live in marshy lands ( mangroves)

thermoacidophiles- they grow on extreme temperature and acidic conditions.

vi) Abiotic components are the non living component (wind,sunlight, radiation ,humidity, soil)

vii) biotic component- these are the living component of the ecosystem(producers, consumers, decomposers)

viii) physical factors-rainfall,temperature

   biotic factors- predators and competitors

landscape- the structure of land or area in an ecosystem this have impact on migration of species

ecosystem- is the large community of living organisms in a particular area and its interactions with the physical environment

community-is a group or association of population of two or more different species occupying in same geographical area at the same time.

population-a group of organisms of a species that interbreed and live in the same place at a same time.

organism-is the simplest level in ecology , it is an individual

biome- a large naturally occuring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitate

biosphere-the regions of earth or atmosphere where living organism occur

major abiotic components- sunlight, wind, humidity, rainfall

macroclimate-climate of large geographic area , this may be global, regional, or landscape level.

microclimate-climate of a small area