1/Describing the difference between an urban ecosystem and natural ecosystem?
Ecosystem definition: A Natural Ecosystem is a community of living things (plants, microbial organisms, animals) and their interaction with non living things (sunlight, soil, wind, water) of the environment.
An Urban Ecosystem includes humans among the living organism, it also shows how humans build the structures among the non living things, for example: in an urban ecosystem, human influence ecological factors like plants and air and ecological factors also influence human’s decisions unlike Natural ecosystem is where ecosystem isn’t in the city or isn’t constructed by humans and in the natural environments like forest ecosystems, freshwater ecosystems, grassland ecosystems, and coastal ecosystems. For example: forest, ocean, lake.
An Urban ecosystem is the most common ecosystem to us because it is the community of plants, animals and humans that inhabits the urban environment where parks, yards and greenways are built whether in natural ecosystem, Forest ecosystem is the woodland where we can hike, cut down tree and hunt. Freshwater ecosystem is the lake, stream and rivers where we fish, and rely for water source. Grassland ecosystem is meadows, prairies, pampas, savannas, and steppes where we grow cattle. A coastal ecosystem is the beaches, the marine animals, the reefs and everything that is in the ocean.
Urban ecosystems are highly disturbed systems like the change in soil and plant and temperature and water availability and building structures dominated because the building structures affect the water flow of water or the type of soil and it is also where parks and yards are built. Urban ecosystems contribute their unique advantages and to the area. Advantages are: Shade and Temperature Control, air filtering, noise reduction, stormwater control, and biodiversity and wildlife habitat, recreation, aesthetic, and spiritual values, easier for food production wether Natural ecosystem provides us goods and services which form our economies like agriculture, forestry, and fishing. Natural ecosystem also provides us air and water, help to control our climate and produce soil.
Urban ecosystem is where industrialized societies, work, religious expression, and recreation often take place whether Natural ecosystems provide place for religious expression, aesthetic enjoyment, and recreation.
There are not really much things that threaten the urban ecosystem except for the growth of giant cities in cities like China whether there are many things that threaten the world‘s natural ecosystem like: Intensive and rapid urban growth, the increases of human’s consumption of food, water and other materials.
2/ What are biotic and abiotic environment factors? Give examples of each.
An ecosystem possesses living components (biotic factors) and nonliving (abiotic factor).
The living components of the environment are called biotic factors; they include all the living things that affect an organism. Producers, Consumers, and Decomposer are often be categorized as biotic components, EX: diseases, predators and competitors.
The nonliving factors are called Abiotic factors are chemical and Physical characteristic of the environment, EX: Solar Energy, oxygen, CO2, Water, temperature, humidity, ph and the nitrogen availability.
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3/ Make a list of the biotic and abiotic factors which might affect the survival of a dingo in its natural habitat. Are these factors the same for a pet dog in a city suburb, or a working dog on a sheep farm? Explain your answer.
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Biotic factors which might affect the survival of a dingo in its natural habitat: In dingo’s natural habitat, dingo can be attack easily by other carnivore animals and the amount of food for dingo to find is not much, there are many diseases that could affect and easily kill a dingo in its natural habitat.
Abiotic factors which might affect the survival of a dingo in its natural habitat: In dingo’s natural habitat, the harsh temperature and the lack amount of water could affect the dingo’s life a lot, the amount of sunlight in dingo’s natural habitat could also heat up the dingo’s body temperature which cause it too get tired and lost body water faster, the amount of dust in the air the dingo breath also make it harder for the dingo to breath.
These factors are not the same for a pet dog in a city suburb or a working dog in a sheep farm because these dogs have enough water and food to eat and being feed constantly by its owner so it don’t have any problem to find food. These dogs don’t live in dingo’s natural habitat where it could be killed by the large amount of disease, harsh temperature (cold at nighttime, hot in daytime), and carnivore animals so its survival chance is higher. The air in the city and the farm don’t contain as much dust as the natural habitat where the dingo live, even there are more polluted air in the city than in the natural habitat.
4/ The biotic factors of the environment do not affect humans and domesticated animals such as dogs and cats as much as they affect other animals in natural ecosystems. Suggest why?
The biotic factors in of the environment include Producers, Consumers, and Decomposer.
For producer, animals in the natural environment have to share the same plant to eat and when there is drought they couldn’t eat anymore but in the city, human can just buy vegetables to eat from the shop for them and for their dog and cat pet.
For Consumers, animals in the natural environment have to consume each other to get the type of food they were to eat like a bird eating plant and then the foxes eating the bird which include a very small amount of plant inside the bird, whether in the city, human can just consume whatever the food they like by going to buy it from the shop, Ex: if human want to eat vegetable, they just buy and it unlike the fox have to eat the bird to have a small amount of vegetable.
For Decomposer, when animals in the habitat environment die, their bodies either being eat by other animals or being decompose into soil and food by bacteria, ants, worm, bugs. In the city when human die, they were put in the coffin which make it harder for the decomposing process when there is not much bacteria and other animals that can get in the coffin to decompose the body. In natural environment, if a carnivore catch and kill another animals, if it couldn’t finish consume the amount of meat of the other then the decomposer will finish it whether when human don’t finish their food, they can put it in the fridge or air seal it which slow down the time the bacteria decompose it and protect it from being decompose by other animals.
5/ List three ways an urban ecosystem is different from a natural ecosystem, for example a eucalypt forest ecosystem.
A swimming pool is in an urban ecosystem and is constructed by humans for swimming while the sea is in a natural ecosystem.
Buildings and cities are a part of an urban ecosystem while there are no buildings or cities in a natural ecosystem
Dog and cat pets live in an urban ecosystem while most of the other animals live in a natural ecosystem.
By Ta Thach and David Dikih
Ecosystem definition: A Natural Ecosystem is a community of living things (plants, microbial organisms, animals) and their interaction with non living things (sunlight, soil, wind, water) of the environment.
An Urban Ecosystem includes humans among the living organism, it also shows how humans build the structures among the non living things, for example: in an urban ecosystem, human influence ecological factors like plants and air and ecological factors also influence human’s decisions unlike Natural ecosystem is where ecosystem isn’t in the city or isn’t constructed by humans and in the natural environments like forest ecosystems, freshwater ecosystems, grassland ecosystems, and coastal ecosystems. For example: forest, ocean, lake.
An Urban ecosystem is the most common ecosystem to us because it is the community of plants, animals and humans that inhabits the urban environment where parks, yards and greenways are built whether in natural ecosystem, Forest ecosystem is the woodland where we can hike, cut down tree and hunt. Freshwater ecosystem is the lake, stream and rivers where we fish, and rely for water source. Grassland ecosystem is meadows, prairies, pampas, savannas, and steppes where we grow cattle. A coastal ecosystem is the beaches, the marine animals, the reefs and everything that is in the ocean.
Urban ecosystems are highly disturbed systems like the change in soil and plant and temperature and water availability and building structures dominated because the building structures affect the water flow of water or the type of soil and it is also where parks and yards are built. Urban ecosystems contribute their unique advantages and to the area. Advantages are: Shade and Temperature Control, air filtering, noise reduction, stormwater control, and biodiversity and wildlife habitat, recreation, aesthetic, and spiritual values, easier for food production wether Natural ecosystem provides us goods and services which form our economies like agriculture, forestry, and fishing. Natural ecosystem also provides us air and water, help to control our climate and produce soil.
Urban ecosystem is where industrialized societies, work, religious expression, and recreation often take place whether Natural ecosystems provide place for religious expression, aesthetic enjoyment, and recreation.
There are not really much things that threaten the urban ecosystem except for the growth of giant cities in cities like China whether there are many things that threaten the world‘s natural ecosystem like: Intensive and rapid urban growth, the increases of human’s consumption of food, water and other materials.
2/ What are biotic and abiotic environment factors? Give examples of each.
An ecosystem possesses living components (biotic factors) and nonliving (abiotic factor).
The living components of the environment are called biotic factors; they include all the living things that affect an organism. Producers, Consumers, and Decomposer are often be categorized as biotic components, EX: diseases, predators and competitors.
The nonliving factors are called Abiotic factors are chemical and Physical characteristic of the environment, EX: Solar Energy, oxygen, CO2, Water, temperature, humidity, ph and the nitrogen availability.
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3/ Make a list of the biotic and abiotic factors which might affect the survival of a dingo in its natural habitat. Are these factors the same for a pet dog in a city suburb, or a working dog on a sheep farm? Explain your answer.
The list is at the top of the page due to technical difficulty.
Biotic factors which might affect the survival of a dingo in its natural habitat: In dingo’s natural habitat, dingo can be attack easily by other carnivore animals and the amount of food for dingo to find is not much, there are many diseases that could affect and easily kill a dingo in its natural habitat.
Abiotic factors which might affect the survival of a dingo in its natural habitat: In dingo’s natural habitat, the harsh temperature and the lack amount of water could affect the dingo’s life a lot, the amount of sunlight in dingo’s natural habitat could also heat up the dingo’s body temperature which cause it too get tired and lost body water faster, the amount of dust in the air the dingo breath also make it harder for the dingo to breath.
These factors are not the same for a pet dog in a city suburb or a working dog in a sheep farm because these dogs have enough water and food to eat and being feed constantly by its owner so it don’t have any problem to find food. These dogs don’t live in dingo’s natural habitat where it could be killed by the large amount of disease, harsh temperature (cold at nighttime, hot in daytime), and carnivore animals so its survival chance is higher. The air in the city and the farm don’t contain as much dust as the natural habitat where the dingo live, even there are more polluted air in the city than in the natural habitat.
4/ The biotic factors of the environment do not affect humans and domesticated animals such as dogs and cats as much as they affect other animals in natural ecosystems. Suggest why?
The biotic factors in of the environment include Producers, Consumers, and Decomposer.
For producer, animals in the natural environment have to share the same plant to eat and when there is drought they couldn’t eat anymore but in the city, human can just buy vegetables to eat from the shop for them and for their dog and cat pet.
For Consumers, animals in the natural environment have to consume each other to get the type of food they were to eat like a bird eating plant and then the foxes eating the bird which include a very small amount of plant inside the bird, whether in the city, human can just consume whatever the food they like by going to buy it from the shop, Ex: if human want to eat vegetable, they just buy and it unlike the fox have to eat the bird to have a small amount of vegetable.
For Decomposer, when animals in the habitat environment die, their bodies either being eat by other animals or being decompose into soil and food by bacteria, ants, worm, bugs. In the city when human die, they were put in the coffin which make it harder for the decomposing process when there is not much bacteria and other animals that can get in the coffin to decompose the body. In natural environment, if a carnivore catch and kill another animals, if it couldn’t finish consume the amount of meat of the other then the decomposer will finish it whether when human don’t finish their food, they can put it in the fridge or air seal it which slow down the time the bacteria decompose it and protect it from being decompose by other animals.
5/ List three ways an urban ecosystem is different from a natural ecosystem, for example a eucalypt forest ecosystem.
A swimming pool is in an urban ecosystem and is constructed by humans for swimming while the sea is in a natural ecosystem.
Buildings and cities are a part of an urban ecosystem while there are no buildings or cities in a natural ecosystem
Dog and cat pets live in an urban ecosystem while most of the other animals live in a natural ecosystem.
By Ta Thach and David Dikih
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