Question

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 1

1. An ecosystem is a community, where all living organisms live and interact with one another and also with their non-living environment such as land, soil, air, water, etc.
2. Ecosystems range in size from the smallest units (Eg: bark of a tree) that can sustain life to the global ecosystem or ecosphere. (Eg: Cropland, Pond ecosystem, Forest ecosystem, Desert ecosystem, etc.).
3. Biosphere harbors all ecosystems on the earth and sustains life forms including mankind.