1. Food Energy in Ecosystems
Chapter 7

2. Essential Question Lesson 1
What is an ecosystem?

3. All the things around you make up the

4. An environment includes living (people, animals, plants) and nonliving (water, soil, air) things.

5. All the things that interact in an environment is an ecosystem.

6. The parts of an ecosystem work together.

7. Dead plants make the soil healthy. Soil and water help new plants grow
Dead plants make the soil healthy. Soil and water help new plants grow. Animals eat plants.

8. A population is a group of the same kind of plant or animal living in the same ecosystem.

9. A community is all the populations that live in the same place.

10. The Blue Ridge Mountains has different tree animals, insect, and bird populations.