What is an ecosystem?
What is the difference between a population, community and ecosystem.
____
_____________ ecosystems are on land.
Terrestrial
________________ make their own food.
Plants
Food chains always start with a __________
Producer.
Tell us the two types of ecosystems.
Terrestrial and aquatic.
Tell us three examples of SPECIES.
Open answer (dogs, cats, foxes, mice, eagles, etc.)
_______________ ecosystems are on water.
Aquatic
According to how they obtain food, living things in ecosystems and p__________ and c___________
producers / consumers
Food chains show pictures of the living things, joined by _________
arrows.
Tell us the two types of aquatic ecosystems.
Freshwater and saltwater.
All the living things of the same species that live in an ecosystem is a _______________
Population
The ecosystem is made up of two types of factors:
abiotic and biotic
_______________ are consumers. They feed on other living things.
Animals
Continue the food chain:
Producer --------->_______________ ---------->Secondary consumer
primary consumer
Tell us the four types of terrestrial ecosystems.
Forests, grasslands, deserts and polar regions.
All the different populations of living things that live together in the same ecosystem is a _____________.
community.
a relationship between two living things
symbiosis
Herbivores are _____________ consumers. They only feed on plants.
primary consumers
To show more than one food chain in an ecosystem we use food _________
webs.
Tell us the ecosystem where grass covers the ground, herbivores feed on this grass, and carnivores feed on this herbivores.
Grassland
There are two different types of physical environments in ecosystems: ______________ and _____________.
Terrestrial and aquatic.
Some living things, like _______________ make soil rich with their waste.
earthworms
________________ are secondary consumers.
Carnivores
Tell an example of food chain:
Open answer (grass --> rabbit --> fox)
Tell us the ecosystems made up of rivers, lakes and streams.