Question

The place where an organism lives is known as…...

Answer 1

Hint: Every organism present on the earth needs a place to live and thus, at the place where it lives, it performs a certain function and plays an important role to maintain the equilibrium of the ecosystem.

Complete answer:
The place where an organism lives is known as habitat. A habitat is that type of natural environment in which a particular species of an organism lives. Every organism has certain needs for the habitat and each organism has its own conditions in which it will thrive, but some of the organisms are tolerant to wide variations whereas others are very specific and particular in case of their requirements. A habitat need not to be necessarily any geographical area, it can be anything like the interior of a stem, a rock or a clump of moss, and for any parasitic organism it is the body of its host, it lives either inside the body or on the body of the host.
An organism is known to share its habitat with various other biotic and abiotic components. The function or role of the organism being played in its habitat or its profession is called a niche. Organisms on the basis of their habitat and the conditions in which it lives is divided into certain categories like thermophiles - which lives in the habitat conditions of high temperatures, halophilic- they live in the habitat where the salt concentration is very high etc.

Note: Habitat is the basic need of every organism, it defines the territory occupied by an organism, and it determines what type of interaction the organism will have with its surrounding environment.