Living Organisms are Members of All of the Following Levels

Question

Living organisms are members of all of the following levels. However, soil is a component of ___.
A) the community
B) the population
C) the ecosystem
D) both the population and ecosystem
E) both the community and the biosphere

Accepted Answer

Soil is a component of the ecosystem because an ecosystem includes both the living organisms and the nonliving environment, such as soil, interacting as a system.