CH 4. Ecosystem

Carnivores

Chlorophyll

Abiotic components consists of kinds, quantity and distribution of physicochemical factors .

Decomposers are those organisms which obtain their nourishment from organic remains by breaking down dead organic matter in the dead bodies of plants and animals.

There are mainly animals, bacteria, fungi. There mode of nutrition is heterotrophs which obtain their food from primary consumers as plants.

Those living oganisms who manufacture organic food from inorganic nutrients like carbo dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight.

The Biotic components of an ecosystem is a community of living organisms like plants, animals and microorganisms.

Some organism which live together, share shelter and nutrients.

Network of interrelated and interconnected food chain .

A sequence of organisms through which food and its contained energy passes with each member.