The study of ECOLOGY involves focusing on the relationships between different living things, ORGANISMS, and their HABITAT. Within one individual organism, come single species of that same being, creating a POPULATION and with those populations come other populations of other organisms that share the same area, thus creating a COMMUNITY. With these communities of similar functions/characteristics an ECOSYSTEM is born. BIOMES, groups of alike features are everywhere. From forests, oceans, even your mouth, all these biomes make up Earth’s BIOSPHERE. The components that make up an ecosystem are ABIOTIC, living, and BIOTIC factors interacting with each other. Those abiotic components being things organisms might use for energy (as sunlight, oxygen, temperature, etc.) whereas biotic are those that use said energy (animals, plants, ALL LIVING ORGANISMS). These biomes can form in all places, both in TERRESTRIAL and AQUATIC lands. Within these ecosystems, there’s a system in which all organism benefit off of each other. PRODUCERS provide energy from photosynthesis to CONSUMERS who then use that energy to operate. DECOMPOSERS are those that provide minerals to the producers and consumers by eating decomposed/ dead carcasses. From these organisms, FOOD CHAINS, FOOD WEBS, and ENERGY PYRAMIDS are formed. Food Chains providing insight into the energy flow of one organism to another while food webs provide information on interrelationship of many organisms and how they connect. Being that some energy doesn’t go fully to the next organism in line, some is lost, that process can be found in an  ENERGY PYRAMID.