Ecosystem Power PointEcosystem Power Point

By: Matthew BurkhardtBy: Matthew Burkhardt

Period 4Period 4

Science Science

Mr. Sunesara Mr. Sunesara

What is an ecosystem?What is an ecosystem?

All the living and nonliving things All the living and nonliving things that interact in an area.that interact in an area.

Example of ecosystem

What is a habitat?What is a habitat?

The place were the The place were the organisms lives and organisms lives and provides the things it provides the things it needs to survive.needs to survive.

Example of habitat

What are biotic factors?What are biotic factors?

A living part of a A living part of a ecosystem.ecosystem.

Example of biotic factor

What are abiotic factors?What are abiotic factors?

A nonliving part of a A nonliving part of a ecosystem.ecosystem.

Example of Abiotic factor

List the five Abiotic factors to List the five Abiotic factors to which organisms respond. which organisms respond.

WaterWater Soil

Temperature

Oxygen Sunlight

Example of one of the five Abiotic factors

What are producers? What are producers?

An organism that can An organism that can make its own food.make its own food.

Example of producers

What are consumers? What are consumers?

An organism that obtains An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other energy by feeding on other

organism.organism.

Example of a consumer

What are herbivores?What are herbivores?

An animal that An animal that eats only plants.eats only plants.

What are carnivores? What are carnivores?

An animal that An animal that eats only other eats only other

animals. animals.

What are omnivores? What are omnivores?

An animal that eats An animal that eats both plants and both plants and

animals.animals.

Example of omnivores

What are decomposers? What are decomposers?

An organism that breaks down An organism that breaks down large molecules from wastes large molecules from wastes

and the remains of dead and the remains of dead organisms into small organisms into small

molecules and returns molecules and returns important materials to the soil important materials to the soil

and water.and water.

Example of a decomposer

What is a food chain? What is a food chain?

The series of events in The series of events in which one organism eats which one organism eats

another, resulting in a another, resulting in a flow of energy among flow of energy among

the organisms involved.the organisms involved.

Example of food chain Example of food chain

What is a food web? What is a food web?

The pattern of The pattern of overlapping food overlapping food

chains in an chains in an ecosystem.ecosystem.

Example of food web

Draw a food chain Draw a food chain

Draw a food web