Ecosystems
True or False: An ecosystem includes both living and non-living things.
✅ True
True or False: A producer eats other animals.
❌ False
🌱 Producers make their own food
True or False: Every food chain starts with an animal.
❌ False
🌿 It starts with a plant
True or False: A food web is made from many connected food chains.
✅ True 🕸
What is a non-living part of an ecosystem called?
💧 An abiotic factor
Who makes food using sunlight?
🌞 A producer (like a plant)
What does the arrow in a food chain show?
➡️ Who eats who / energy flow
What makes food webs more stable than food chains?
🍽 They have more food options
Where do plants and animals live and interact with each other?
🌎 In an ecosystem
What do consumers need to eat to survive?
🍽 Other living things
Who is the first consumer that eats the producer?
🐇 The primary consumer
Why can one small change affect the whole food web?
💥 Because all the organisms are connected
Why do animals need other living things in their ecosystem?
🐾 To get food, shelter, and survive
Who breaks down dead plants and animals into nutrients?
🍄 Decomposers like fungi and bacteria
Why might a predator disappear if its prey is gone?
😟 It would have no food to eat
Who might be affected if a herbivore disappears from a food web?
🦁 Its predators
How do living and non-living parts of an ecosystem affect each other?
🔁 They all depend on each other
How are decomposers helpful in an ecosystem?
♻️ They recycle nutrients into the soil
How does energy move through a food chain?
⚡️ From the Sun → plant → animal → predator
How does a food web show interdependence in an ecosystem?
🔄 It shows how everything relies on something else