Name ____________________________________________ Ecosystems Webquest

Directions : Click on the following link- http://eschooltoday.com/ecosystems/levels -of-organisation-

inan-ecosystem.html . Answer the questions below about ecosystems.

Click on What is an Ecosystem?

1. What does an ecosystem include?

2. What is a niche?

3. What are the basic needs of living things?

4. What happens if a new organism is added to an ecosystem or if the temperature was to change
suddenly?

Click on Scales of an Ecosystem

5. True or False. Ecosystems are always very large and cover a large amount of land.

6. What is “ecotone”

7. A ecosystem that exists on land (outside bodies of water) are called __________________________ and
ecosystems that exist within a body of water are called __________________________
Click on Levels of Organization

8. Explain each of the different levels next to the picture:

Click on Biomes

9. What are Biomes defined by?

10. List the 5 basic biomes here:

11. Choose 1 Biome to click on and describe it more in depth here (at least 4 facts):
Click on The Carbon Cycle

12. Draw the cycle here!

Click on the Nitrogen Cycle

13. How much of earth’s air is made of Nitrogen?

14. What is Nitrogen converted to in order to be useful to plants?

15. What organism converts Nitrogen?

Click on Important Terminology

16. Define:
Adaptation-

Symbiosis-

1. Parasitism-

2. Commensalism-

3. Mutualism-