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