An ecosystem is a defined area that is self-maintaining, which includes all the different living organisms within that area. These organisms interact with each other and with their non-living physical environment. The two main components that influence an organism in its natural habitat are the abiotic and biotic resources, which function together. An ecosystem cannot exist without both these components.
Even though water traveled from the Terra to the Decomp to the Aqua zone there was no other real interaction between the zones eg 1. The Aqua to the Terra zone, eg 2. We only had herbivores, wood louse etc we had no carnivores (no interaction between animals), eg 3. materials from different zones could not mix eg dead insects from the Terra zone could not fall into the Decomp zone.
No it was not successful, because our Eco-column firstly blown over by the wind the other factor is we did not work well as a group as we some of us did not do our part.
This post would have benefitted from far more detail ie what were the abiotic factors that impacted on the the living organisms - because you did not post much in the earlier posts it is difficult for you now to comment on aspects like temperature, amount of water, pH of different regions, sunlight etc AND because the ecocolumn was then moved to another environment compeltely (MR's HOUSE) this would have meant a change. Look at the mark scheme - says refer to 1st term notes - there you could have got a good idea of what abiotic factors needed to be commented on.
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