All the living and nonliving things that exist and interact in one place
An ecosystem
What are abiotic factors?
All the nonliving factors that affect an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
All the living components of an ecosystem
What play the role of producers?
Plants
What are all the members of one kind of plant or animal in a community called?
A population
The organisms in an ecosystem _____.
work together
What do plants and animals need to live and grow?
nonliving things
What is an example of a biotic factor?
Answers will vary.
A producer makes its own ___.
Food
What is the difference between an abiotic and biotic factor?
Abiotic factors are nonliving factors and biotic factors are living factors.
A living thing can only live in an environment that meets its ____.
needs
What is an example of an abiotic factor?
Answers will vary.
Are you an abiotic or biotic organism?
Biotic
Where does a producer get energy to make food?
Sunlight
What are the three groups of biotic factors?
Producers, consumers, and decomposers
What do all the living things in an ecosystem make up?
a community
Which one is not an abiotic factor: sunlight, water, trees, soil.
Trees
Which one is not a biotic factor: water, frogs, moss, black bear?
Water
What do decomposers turn the unused material of dead plants and animals into in the soil?
nutrients
What is the process where plants make food called?
photosynthesis