Question

What is difference between habitat and ecosystem?

Answer 1

Habitat

1. The natural home of an organism is known as Habitat

2. Habitat is smaller than ecosystem

3. Lies within an ecosystem

4. A collection of habitats makes an ecosystem

5. One habitat contains one or a few species

6. Habitat contains only a few trophic levels

Ecosystem

1. Ecosystem consists of all communities of living organisms and their relationships with the physical environment in a geographic area

2. Ecosystem is always larger than a habitat

3. One ecosystem could contain many habitats

4. A collection of ecosystems make the large unit of biomes

5. One ecosystem contains a very large number of species

6. Contains all the trophic levels