Ecosystems

Ecosystems 

Key Words

Environment: All the conditions that surround a living organism.

Habitat: The place where an organism lives.

Population: All the members of a single species that live in a habitat.

Community: All the population of different organisms that live together in a habitat 

Ecosystems: A community and habitat in which they live in. 

In year 11 you do two different experiments that link with this topic. The first one is an experiment where you use quadrats 

What are quadrats?- These are used to count how many organisms are in a certain area.

How to do the experiment: 

• Normally you have to through the quadrat randomly and count how many organisms there are within the squares.
• Then measure the full area, for example, the whole…