Environmental Chemistry

Environmental ecosystem

An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, along with weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Ecosystems contain biotic or living parts as well as abiotic or non-living parts. Biotic factors include plants, animals, and other organisms. There are three main types of ecosystems: freshwater, oceanic and terrestrial. Each type of ecosystem can support a wide variety of habitats and thus represents the diversity of plants and animals on planet Earth. The ecosystem is an autonomous unit of living things (plants, animals and decomposers) and their non-living environment (soil, air and water). Example – a meadow and a forest.