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Question: How does climate affect and determine the characteristics of an ecosystem?
How does climate affect and determine the characteristics of an ecosystem?
Any answers?

Answer:

Answer by Casey/Kelle
Ecosystems and Climate

Climate, which is average weather conditions over a period of time, is the primary environmental influence on ecosystems.

Plants, animals, insects and microbes are adapted to small changes in climate. However, climatic conditions vary widely over the earth. Organisms adapted to Illinois would not do well in a desert or tropical climate. Even extremes in Illinois’ climate can result in destruction of some members of the Illinois ecosystem.

The two most important climatic factors for ecosystems are sunlight and water.

Sunlight is necessary for plants to grow, and to provide energy to warm the earth’s atmosphere. Light intensity controls plant growth. Light duration affects plant flowering and animal/insect habits.

All living organisms require some amount of water. Organisms in dry ecosystems are adapted to the conditions by storing water for use over long periods or becoming less active. At the other maximum, some plants and animals only survive by being submersed in water.

http://ecosys.cfl.scf.rncan.gc.ca/enjeux-issues/climat-climate-eng.asp

1 Which of the folling best described your part in your ecosystem?
a. a source of energy for living things
b. consumer
c. a decomposer

2. A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffeated is called____.
a. parasitism
b. commensalism
c. organism

What are the effects of Man on the ecosystem with emphasis on examples of international importance (tropical rain forests, oceans, important rivers)

Our Ecosystem is very much disturbed by agriculture every year. If we waste less or no food, would this mean less pressure on our ecology and could mean more span of life on earth ?

What is the original source of energy for an ecosystem? Describe how that energy is transferred to different organisms in that ecosystem.

List:
frog, human, hawk, flies, grass, snake, bacteria, mice, grasshopper, flea, rotton fruit, fish

a)name all the producers in the list
b)name all the hervivores in the list
c)name the carnivores in the list
d)name the parasite in the list
e)name the decomposer in the list

Using those words in the list how could i draw a food web using eight of the organisms

Whats the difference btw. food web and food chain

On accident I went into an all natural lagoon and natural park and my perscription medicine dissolved in my pocket and assumingly went inside this water will this mess up any part of the ecosystem or affect any other people?
On accident I went into an all natural lagoon and natural park and my perscription medicine dissolved in my pocket and assumingly went inside this water will this mess up any part of the ecosystem or affect any other people? By the way it was also 50 mg

I’m inclined to say hunters, as they are actually out there interacting with the environment, benefiting from it. They help control animal populations to ensure that a balance in the ecosystem is maintained.

Activists have good intentions and ideologies, but are their protests and campaigns as effective as a hunters direct action?

1. The plants a ladybug lives on, the aphids that the ladybug eats, and the birds would eat the ladybug are all_______.
a. biotic parts of the envirnment
b. abiotic parts of the envirnment
d. involved in predatory-prey relationships.

2. The old adage "birds of a feather flock together" desribes which level of environmental organization?
a. a population
b. an organism
d. an ecosystem

3. which statement about a niche is flase?
a. It includes the organism habtat
b. It’s always a small, confined area
c. It’s the organism’s role in the ecosystem
d. It includes nonliving facors, such as temperature