2. Ecosystem Powerpoint By: Ryan Bobbitt Period 7 Science Mr. Sunesara By: Ryan Bobbitt Period 7 Science Mr. Sunesara

3. What is an ecosystem?  All the living and nonliving things that interact in an area.

4. Example of Ecosystem

5. What is a habitat?  The place were an organism lives and that provides the things it needs to survive.

6. Example of Habitat

7. What are biotic factors? AAAA living part of an ecosystem.

8. Example of Biotic Factor

9. What are abiotic factors?  A nonliving part of an ecosystem.

10. Example of Abiotic Factor

11. List the 5 abiotic factors to which organisms respond? WWWWater, sunlight, oxygen, temperature, and soil.

12. Examples of Abiotic Factors

13. What are producers?  An organism that can make its own food.

14. Example of Producers

15. What are consumers?  An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

16. Example of Consumers

17. What are herbivores? AAAAn animal that eats only plants.

18. Example of Herbivore

19. What are carnivores?  An animal that eats only other animals.

20. Example of Carnivore

21. What are omnivores?  An animal that eats both plants and animals.

22. Example of Omnivore

23. What are decomposers? AAAAn organism that breaks down the large molecules from wastes and the remains of dead organisms into small molecules and returns important materials to the soil and water.

24. Example of Decomposer

25. 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.

26. Example of Food Chain grass ---> grasshopper --> mouse ---> snake ---> hawk

27. What is a food web?  The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.

28. Example of Food Web

29. Draw a food chain?

30. Draw a food web?

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