Activities about ecosystems

1) What is an ecosystem?

2) What is a terrestrial ecosystem?
3) Name four types of terrestrial ecosystems.
4) What are the two types of forest?
5) Why are Atlantic forests different from Mediterranean forests?
6) Why does mountain grassland have different plants and animals than deserts?
7) Write a characteristic of plants in mountain grassland.
8) Which are the two types of aquatic ecosystems? Which is the main difference between them?

9) Use each of the following words in a separate sentence: 

* Mutualism
* Commensalism
* Parasitism

10) Identify two things organisms compete with one another for. 

11) What is pollution?

12) What is deforestation?

13) What is desertification?