What is an ecosystem?
What are the components of an ecosystem?
Biotic and abiotic factors
OR
living things and their environment
What is the name of living things in an ecosystem?
Biotic factors
________________ make their own food.
Plants
Food chains always start with a __________
Producer.
A cow is a
herbivore.
Tell us three examples of SPECIES.
Open answer (dogs, cats, foxes, mice, eagles, etc.)
If there are more consumers than producers, the ecosystem is (balanced or unbalanced).
Unbalanced
Not enough energy for the consumers to survive.
According to how they obtain food, living things are categorized into and __________ and ___________ in ecosystems.
producers / consumers
Food chains show pictures of the living things, joined by _________
arrows.
A lion is a
All the living things of the same species that live in an ecosystem is a _______________
Population
The ______________________ is made up of all NON-LIVING components in an ecosystem.
physical environment
The three types of consumers are:
Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores
Continue the food chain:
Producer --------->_______________ ---------->Secondary consumer
primary consumer
A bear is a
omnivore.
All the different populations of living things that live together in the same ecosystem is a _____________.
community.
An important part of ecosystems are the ____________ between living things and the environment.
relationships
Herbivores are _____________ consumers. They only feed on plants.
primary consumers
To show more than one food chain in an ecosystem we use food _________
webs.
A coyote is a
scavenger OR opportunistic feeder.
This word describes something that is "self"-sufficient in an ecosystem.
Autotrophs
What is an example we discussed while making our food webs that was a living moving decomposer?
earthworms
________________ are secondary consumers.
Carnivores
Tell an example of food chain:
Open answer (grass --> rabbit --> fox)
What is the order in which the energy pyramid is organized?
Producer → Primary consumer → Secondary consumer → Tertiary consumer