Academic Integrity: tutoring, explanations, and feedback — we don’t complete graded work or submit on a student’s behalf.

Honey bees engage in entomophily, pollination through pollen distribution, as pa

ID: 49979 • Letter: H

Question

Honey bees engage in entomophily, pollination through pollen distribution, as part of the process to produce honey. What is entomophily an example of?

ecosystem

niche

habitat

community

An ecosystem is composed of communities of living organisms at a particular time. This includes plants and animals, as well as non-living elements such as water, wind, heat, chemical constituents, etc. Each organism within a community has a habitat and a niche (Figure 1). An organism’s habitatis the location in which it physically resides or is adapted to reside. An organism’s niche refers its function or “occupation”. Occupation defines the way in which the organism obtains and sustains all of the elements needed for survival.

please explain your answer!

ecosystem

niche

habitat

community

Explanation / Answer

ecosystem.

b. An ecosystem includes all of the living things (plants, animals and organisms) in a given area, interacting with each other, and also with their non-living environments (weather, earth, sun, soil, climate, atmosphere. An ecosystem includes all of the living things (plants, animals and organisms) in a given area, interacting with each other, and also with their non-living environments (weather, earth, sun, soil, climate, atmosphere).
Niche is a term with a variety of meanings related to the behavior of a species living under specific environmental conditions. The ecological niche describes how an organism or population responds to the distribution of resources and competitors (for example, by growing when resources are abundant, and when predators, parasites and pathogens are scarce) and how it in turn alters those same factors (for example, limiting access to resources by other organisms, acting as a food source for predators and a consumer of prey).