All of the plant life of particular region or time

An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Ecosystems contain biotic or living, parts, as well as a biotic factors, or nonliving parts. Biotic factors include plants, animals, and other organisms. Abiotic factors include rocks, temperature, and humidity. Every factor in an ecosystem depends on every other factor, either directly or indirectly. A change in the temperature of an ecosystem will often affect what plants will grow there, for instance. Animals that depend on plants for food and shelter will have to adapt to the changes, move to another ecosystem, or perish. Ecosystems can be very large or very small. Tide pools, the ponds left by the ocean as the tide goes out, are complete, tiny ecosystems. Tide pools contain seaweed, a kind of algae, which uses photosynthesis to create food. Herbivores such as abalone eat the seaweed. Carnivores such as sea stars eat other animals in the tide pool, such as clams or mussels. Tide pools depend on the changing level of ocean water. Some organisms, such as seaweed, thrive in an aquatic environment, when the tide is in and the pool is full. Other organisms, such as hermit crabs, cannot live underwater and depend on the shallow pools left by low tides. In this way, the biotic parts of the ecosystem depend on abiotic factors. The whole surface of Earth is a series of connected ecosystems. Ecosystems are often connected in a la...

/vɛdʒəˈteɪʃən/ Other forms: vegetations Use the word vegetation to refer to all plants and trees collectively, typically those in a specific region. The vegetation in your backyard might look very lush and green in the springtime, unless you forget to water it. Vegetation, as well as meaning all plant growth, can refer to the growth process of a plant. The lettuce you planted a couple weeks ago is at an early stage of vegetation. Vegetation can also apply to people — or at least to those in a state of inactivity. Think about how slowly plants grow. It’s the same for a person who’s in a state of vegetation. You may sometimes enjoy the mindless vegetation of doing nothing at all.

What Is Flora ? • Flora can be defined as a group of indigenous plants (trees, plants and other forms of life such as fungi and algae) in an ecosystem of a given geographical region of the planet or have grown in an area during a certain time period. Examples of flora include: • Grassland • Giant redwood trees • Nepenthes • Forest • Welwitschia Mirabilis • Palm trees • Sunflowers and all kind of plant vegetation What Is Fauna? • Fauna can be defined as a group of indigenous animals found in any geographical region of the planet or can be found during a certain period of the year or have lived in a certain area of the planet at some point in time. Therefore, biologists came up with the term flora and fauna to refer to a collection of plant and animal species in a given geographical location. Examples of fauna include: • Birds • Animals • Eltham Copper butterfly • Fish • Insects • Southern Toadlet • Coral • Lions • Tigers • Cows • Bears The key Difference The following points highlight the difference between Flora and Fauna in terms of their characteristic features: The basis of comparison include: Ability to make own food, gaseous exchange, reproduction, response to stimuli, Digestive system, cellular organelles, excretion, movement and discipline under which each of them is studied. • Flora is the plant life naturally occurring in a particular geographical region. Fauna on the other hand, is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time. Flora, fauna and ot...