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Why
know ecosystems?
Plants and animals
are not randomly distributed on Chek Jawa. To find them, it helps to understand
where and how they live.
Habitat: Each living thing is
generally found in a place that best suits it. Such a place is called
a habitat and has characteristic conditions, for example, how often
it is exposed out of water. |
 Community:
Each living thing belongs to a community of other plants and animals.
Members of a community interact with each other. Some, for example,
may eat one another. |
 Ecosystem:
Plants and animals also interact with their surrounding. An
example is when they take in nutriends. Such a community and its surroundings,
interacting in a stable structure, form an ecosystem. |
The ecosystems of
Chek Jawa are connected to each other. The boundaries of each ecosystem,
however, are not clearly marked. Overlaps occur as one ecosystem gradually
changes into adjoining ecosystems.
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