Ecosystem Power Point By: Matthew Burkhardt Period 4 Science Mr. Sunesara.
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Ecosystem Power PointEcosystem Power Point
By: Matthew BurkhardtBy: Matthew Burkhardt
Period 4Period 4
Science Science
Mr. Sunesara Mr. Sunesara
What is an ecosystem?What is an ecosystem?
All the living and nonliving things All the living and nonliving things that interact in an area.that interact in an area.
Example of ecosystem
What is a habitat?What is a habitat?
The place were the The place were the organisms lives and organisms lives and provides the things it provides the things it needs to survive.needs to survive.
Example of habitat
What are biotic factors?What are biotic factors?
A living part of a A living part of a ecosystem.ecosystem.
Example of biotic factor
What are abiotic factors?What are abiotic factors?
A nonliving part of a A nonliving part of a ecosystem.ecosystem.
Example of Abiotic factor
List the five Abiotic factors to List the five Abiotic factors to which organisms respond. which organisms respond.
WaterWater Soil
Temperature
Oxygen Sunlight
Example of one of the five Abiotic factors
What are producers? What are producers?
An organism that can An organism that can make its own food.make its own food.
Example of producers
What are consumers? What are consumers?
An organism that obtains An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other energy by feeding on other
organism.organism.
Example of a consumer
What are herbivores?What are herbivores?
An animal that An animal that eats only plants.eats only plants.
What are carnivores? What are carnivores?
An animal that An animal that eats only other eats only other
animals. animals.
What are omnivores? What are omnivores?
An animal that eats An animal that eats both plants and both plants and
animals.animals.
Example of omnivores
What are decomposers? What are decomposers?
An organism that breaks down An organism that breaks down large molecules from wastes large molecules from wastes
and the remains of dead and the remains of dead organisms into small organisms into small
molecules and returns molecules and returns important materials to the soil important materials to the soil
and water.and water.
Example of a decomposer
What is a food chain? What is a food chain?
The series of events in The series of events in which one organism eats which one organism eats
another, resulting in a another, resulting in a flow of energy among flow of energy among
the organisms involved.the organisms involved.
Example of food chain Example of food chain
What is a food web? What is a food web?
The pattern of The pattern of overlapping food overlapping food
chains in an chains in an ecosystem.ecosystem.
Example of food web
Draw a food chain Draw a food chain
Draw a food web
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