What is an ecosystem?
Ecosystems
How do living things obtain food.
Food chains, webs
Types of ecosystems
100

What are the three components of an ecosystems.

The living things, ________________ and their ____________________.

physical environment / relationships

100

_____________ ecosystems are on land.

Terrestrial

100

________________ make their own food.

Plants

100

Food chains always start with a __________

Producer.

100

Tell us the two types of ecosystems.

Terrestrial and aquatic.

200

Tell us three examples of SPECIES.

Open answer (dogs, cats, foxes, mice, eagles, etc.)

200

_______________ ecosystems are on water.

Aquatic

200

According to how they obtain food, living things in ecosystems and p__________ and c___________

producers / consumers

200

Food chains show pictures of the living things, joined by _________

arrows.

200

Tell us the two types of aquatic ecosystems.

Freshwater and saltwater.

300

All the living things of the same species that live in an ecosystem is a _______________

Population

300

The ______________________ is made up of all NON-LIVING components in an ecosystem.

physical environment

300

_______________ are consumers. They feed on other living things.

Animals

300

Continue the food chain:


Producer --------->_______________ ---------->Secondary consumer

primary consumer

300

Tell us the four types of terrestrial ecosystems.

Forests, grasslands, deserts and polar regions.

400

All the different populations of living things that live together in the same ecosystem is a _____________.

community.

400

An important part of ecosystems are the ____________ between living things and the environment.

relationships

400

Herbivores are _____________ consumers. They only feed on plants.

primary consumers

400

To show more than one food chain in an ecosystem we use food _________

webs.

400

Tell us the ecosystem where grass covers the ground, herbivores feed on this grass, and carnivores feed on this herbivores.

Grassland

500

There are two different types of physical environments in ecosystems: ______________ and _____________.

Terrestrial and aquatic.

500

Some living things, like _______________ make soil rich with their waste.

earthworms

500

________________ are secondary consumers.

Carnivores

500

Tell an example of food chain:




Open answer (grass --> rabbit --> fox)

500

Tell us the ecosystems made up of rivers, lakes and streams.

Freshwater ecosystems.
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