1. Ecosystems Vocabulary
A Community of living things and the environment in which they live
The Individual is apart of the Population which is apart of the Community which makes up the Ecosystem
Source: Deer Image from Google

2. Source: Microsoft Images
Habitat --
A Habitat is the place where a plant or animal lives or grows naturally
Food
Water
Shelter
Space
A Population of Deer
Source: Microsoft Images

3. Niche
Niche – the role of an organism or a population within an ecosystem
Example of a Niche: Great Horned Owls is the predator of the skunk.
Great Horned Owl
Source: Google Images

4. Food Chain/Food Web
Food Chain- A chain or series of living things which eat each other for energy (passage of energy from one living thing to another)
Food Web- the relationship between many different food chains in a single ecosystem.

5. Consumers, Producers, & Decomposers
Consumer – an organism in a community that must eat to get the energy it needs
Producer – green plants that make their own food through photosynthesis; producers form the base of any food web. Without producers, energy form the sun would not be able to enter the food web
Decompose – are consumers that break down the tissues of once living organisms (ex. mushrooms and bacteria)

6. Types of Consumers Herbivore- An animal whose only food is plants
Carnivore- An animal that eats meat
Omnivore - an animal that eats both meat (insects and/or other animals) and plants.

7. Food Chain Sun Plants Rabbit Hawk Herbivore Carnivore
Producers Consumers (photosynthesis)

8. Food Chain # 2 Sun Plants Butterfly/Caterpillar Turkey Bobcat
Herbivore Omnivore Carnivore
Producers Consumers
(photosynthesis)