is grass an abiotic factor in a habitat?
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How about you find out what an abiotic factor is? Then you tell us what the answer is, and then we'll tell you why you are right or wrong. How's that sound?\n\nDon't expect other people to do your homework for you, especially when the questions are this simple. It's dishonest and you learn nothing. \n\nYou also get incorrect answers such as the one quirkgirl just gave.
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ecosystem is used in a broader term to describe interactions between living organism and the environment in which they thrive. However habitat is concerned more about where these organisms live than the symbioses or interaction in their mist.\n\nHence we can talk about the human habitat, the animal habitat, the habitat of certain plants etc
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APPEARANCE: Tress, shrubs and grass.\n\nHABITATS:   Terential, aquatic and sub terential.
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Grasses feed on mineral salts, carbon, and water from soil\nmosses have a kind of mix physiology allowing them to feed on non-organig substratum, and to keep water stored for a very long time span- yet not fully able to feed on their own\ncockroaches are able to eat any kind of organic matter left by other animals -including the snaps of that chestnut pie left on the table.\nbees use mainly sugar from plants and use a lot of energy to collect it within a highly organized system
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Animals, plants, and organisms are biotic. Rocks and other inanimate objects are abiotic.
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Grass grows.  Grazing animals (herbivores) eat grass and convert it to flesh.  Meat eating animals (carnivores) catch and eat herbivores.  Carnivores die.  Bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms cause decay.  The decay products help fertilse the grass so it can grow, and the process repeats.\n\nIt is a little more complicated than that, but the  basics are as set out above.
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They are mostly terrestrial in habitat, living in soil or on decaying plant or animal material.
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There are any number of examples. \n\nFor example many plant species and even entire communities have distributions controlled by soil type to the degree that it is normal to refer to sandstone communities or basalt communities.
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Grass does NOT create energy - the previous answer is wrong.\n\nLike other plants, grass uses the energy of light to photosythesise carbon dioxide from the air with water from the soil to make sugars.\n\nThe sugars it makes can be converted into everything else it requires with the addition of various minerals (phosphates, nitrates, etc.) also from soil.\n\nThis is an autotrophic method of nutrition. Plants don't exactly feed.
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Well, you probably know grasses do not have a "calyx" or "corola;" they do have bracts and glumes.  Do you need more specific info.? I will check back.
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Desert - very dry, either hot or cold \nTundra - cool, treeless, and dry \nChaparral or scrub - coastal area with hot, dry summers and mild, cool, rainy winters \nTaiga or Coniferous Forest - cool and dry, with coniferous trees \nTemperate Deciduous Forest - cool and rainy, with deciduous trees \nGrassland - Windy, partly dry sea of grass with few trees, including tropical savanna, prairie, steppe, pampas, etc. \nMountina biomes: there are a lot of different biomes that exist on a mountains, from grasslands at low altitudes, taiga (coniferous forests) below the treeline, and alpine (the same as tundra) \nTemperate Rain Forest - cool and wet \nTropical Rain Forest - warm and very wet \nLand Caves - cool and dark \nWetlands - there are many types of wetlands, including swamps, marshes, moors, bogs, fens, sloughs, etc. \nFreshwater Marsh - a wetland located near creeks, streams, rivers and lakes \nTemperate ponds
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Holocene Soil Development on Till and Outwash Inferred from Lake-Sediment Geochemistry in Michigan and Wisconsin \nAuthors: Ewing H.A.1; Nater E.A.2\nSource: Quaternary Research, Volume 57, Number 2, March 2002, pp. 234-243(10)\n\nParent material. Few soils weather directly from the underlying rocks. These "residual" soils have the same general chemistry as the original rocks. More commonly, soils form in materials that have moved in from elsewhere. Materials may have moved many miles or only a few feet. Windblown "loess" is common in the Midwest. It buries "glacial till" in many areas. Glacial till is material ground up and moved by a glacier. The material in which soils form is called "parent material." In the lower part of the soils, these materials may be relatively unchanged from when they were deposited by moving water, ice, or wind.\n\nSediments along rivers have different textures, depending on whether the stream moves quickly or slowly. Fast-moving water leaves gravel, rocks, and sand. Slow-moving water and lakes leave fine textured material (clay and silt) when sediments in the water settle out.\n\nClimate. Soils vary, depending on the climate. Temperature and moisture amounts cause different patterns of weathering and leaching. Wind redistributes sand and other particles especially in arid regions. The amount, intensity, timing, and kind of precipitation influence soil formation. Seasonal and daily changes in temperature affect moisture effectiveness, biological activity, rates of chemical reactions, and kinds of vegetation.\n\nTopography. Slope and aspect affect the moisture and temperature of soil. Steep slopes facing the sun are warmer, just like the south-facing side of a house. Steep soils may be eroded and lose their topsoil as they form. Thus, they may be thinner than the more nearly level soils that receive deposits from areas upslope. Deeper, darker colored soils may be expected on the bottom land.\n\nBiological factors. Plants, animals, micro-organisms, and humans affect soil formation. Animals and micro-organisms mix soils and form burrows and pores. Plant roots open channels in the soils. Different types of roots have different effects on soils. Grass roots are "fibrous" near the soil surface and easily decompose, adding organic matter. Taproots open pathways through dense layers. Micro-organisms affect chemical exchanges between roots and soil. Humans can mix the soil so extensively that the soil material is again considered parent material.\n\nThe native vegetation depends on climate, topography, and biological factors plus many soil factors such as soil density, depth, chemistry, temperature, and moisture. Leaves from plants fall to the surface and decompose on the soil. Organisms decompose these leaves and mix them with the upper part of the soil. Trees and shrubs have large roots that may grow to considerable depths.\n\nTime. Time for all these factors to interact with the soil is also a factor. Over time, soils exhibit features that reflect the other forming factors. Soil formation processes are continuous. Recently deposited material, such as the deposition from a flood, exhibits no features from soil development activities. The previous soil surface and underlying horizons become buried. The time clock resets for these soils. Terraces above the active floodplain, while genetically similar to the floodplain, are older land surfaces and exhibit more development features.\n\nThese soil forming factors continue to affect soils even on "stable" landscapes. Materials are deposited on their surface, and materials are blown or washed away from the surface. Additions, removals, and alterations are slow or rapid, depending on climate, landscape position, and biological activity.\n\nWhen mapping soils, a soil scientist looks for areas with similar soil-forming factors to find similar soils. The colors, texture, structure, and other properties are d
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OH YEAH!  The abiotic things.  Community is the interaction of living species with each other, ecosystem is those interactions Plus interaction with abiotic factors (water, temperature etc).\nLet me make sure.\n\nYep Yep.  i think that's it
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It is not E because fungi are not photosynthetic, therefore I would say 'B' is false.  I would say 'C' as it is typically taught that bacteria symbiotically fix nitrogen for plants not fungi.  The fungi that live in symbiosis with plant roots (ie mycorrhizas) typically help the plant absorb nutrients from the soil.
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Well, some simple abiotic factors would be that giraffer's are affected by the pH of the water they drink, its salinity, body temperature, environmental temperature, as well as air qualities. I could look into the actual environmentalcontext fo the giraffe species and see what it lives around.\n\nfor biotic factors, we could say human encroachment, predation of lions, for instance. We also know that the leaves and grasses it feeds on is another biotic factor. We can look at sexual competition (if there is any) in the giraffe species, and of course any incidences of bacterial disease that a giraffe is significantly prone to.
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wetlands already ARE a part of the environment! they are not something artificial that you need to blend in...
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Major Components of Ecosystems:\n\nEcosystems are composed of a variety of abiotic and biotic components that function in an interrelated fashion. Some of the more important components are: soil, atmosphere, radiation from the sun, water, and living organisms.