• Terms and definitions

Read the following introductions to ecosystems and write your own definitions of the following terms:

Wikipedia - ecosystem

Living Things - habitats and ecosystems

Internet Geography - ecosystems

population, community, habitat, ecosystem
 

		biosphere
	organism		biome
	niche		ecosystem
	population		habitat
		community

• Micro-scale (niche) and macro-scale (Biomes)

Backyard Nature - from niche to biosphere

thinkquest - habitats and biomes

what is it like where you live?

• Inputs, flows, stores and outputs