Explain the difference between a habitat and an ecosystem.
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Model answer: A habitat is the specific place where an organism lives — its 'address' in nature (like a pond or a forest floor). An ecosystem is broader — it includes the habitat plus all the living organisms in the area and all the non-living factors, along with the interactions among them.
Habitat describes where; ecosystem describes the full web of what lives there, what non-living factors are present, and how everything interacts. A pond is a frog's habitat, but the pond ecosystem includes the frog, the algae it eats, the heron that eats the frog, the water, the sunlight, and all their interactions.