Global warming and its byproduct climate change are starting to have
             a direct impact on the earth. The warming temperatures are starting to
             create major problems for animals around the globe. The animals being
             affected the worst right now are the cold-blooded species. Frogs, fish, and
             insects are a few examples of some cold-blooded species. The warmer
             temperatures are causing these creatures to shrink in size. According to a
             recent study published in Nature Climate Change "Many organisms are already
             getting smaller and more are likely to shrink because of climate warming"
             (Koch). Shrinking animals will cause major problems for our global
             ecosystems. It is going to get difficult for some ecosystems to be able to
             adapt and survive due to shrinking members of its ecosystem.
             Essentially, an ecosystem is a community of living and non-living
             things as well as environmental factors that work together to survive.
             There are no particular sizes or size limitations to an ecosystem as they
             can range from a single dandelion in the yard, to an entire tropical rain
             forest. The living organisms in an ecosystem all have their own, but
             equally important jobs. "Living organisms in an ecosystem can be divided
             into three categories, producers, consumers, and decomposers" (Nature
             Works). Producers are organisms that can not make its own food. Consumers
             are organisms that must consume other organisms to survive. Decomposers are
             organisms that break down other living organisms. In order to survive these
             three groups of living things must work together with the non-living things
             The word ecosystem derived in 1930 from the words "ecology" and
             "system". "British botanist Roy Clapham coined the term meaning the
             combined physical and biological components of an environment" (Ecosystem).
             "British ecologist Arthur Tansley later refined the term as meaning the
             whole system, His ideas about "systems" were important...