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Learning Task 1: Answer the following questions. Write your answer
your notebook
1. What is an ecosystem? What are examples of diverse ecosystem?
2. What is a rainforest? Why is rain forest nown as the lungs of the
3. What are the major parts of the rainforest? Describe each
4. What are coral reefs? Where are they found? Why are they important
to marine lives?
5. What are the different types of coral reefs. Describe each,
Answers & Comments
Answer:
1.The simplest definition of an ecosystem is that it is a community or group of living organisms that live in and interact with each other in a specific environment.
An example of ecological diversity on a global scale would be the variation in ecosystems, such as deserts, forests, grasslands, wetlands and oceans.
2.Tropical rainforests are often called the “lungs of the planet
3.Emergent Layer
Canopy Layer
Understory Layer
Forest Floor
4.Because of the diversity of life found in the habitats created by corals, reefs are often called the "rainforests of the sea.
5.The three main types of coral reefs are fringing, barrier, and atoll. Schools of colorful pennantfish, pyramid, and milletseed butterflyfish live on an atoll reef in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.