Ecosystems

What is an ecosystem?

• Community of organisms interacting with each other and their environment

• One individual living thing

• All members of the same species living in one area

• Different populations living together in one area

What is a population?

• Community of organisms interacting with each other and their environment

• One individual living thing

• All members of the same species living in one area

• Different populations living together in one area

What is an organism?

• Community of organisms interacting with each other and their environment

• One individual living thing

• All members of the same species living in one area

• Different populations living together in one area

What is a community?

• Community of organisms interacting with each other and their environment

• One individual living thing

• All members of the same species living in one area

• Different populations living together in one area

What is a biome?

• Community of organisms interacting with each other and their environment

• A group of ecosystems with the same climate and communities

• All members of the same species living in one area

• The parts of Earth where life exists.

What is a biosphere?

• Community of organisms interacting with each other and their environment

• A group of ecosystems with the same climate and communities

• All members of the same species living in one area

• The parts of Earth where life exists.

What are the two parts of an ecosystem?

• air and water

• abiotic and biotic factors

• population and community

• producers and decomposers

What are the non-living parts of an ecosystem?

• abiotic factors

• biotic factors

• populations

• food chains

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What are the living parts of an ecosystem?

• abiotic factors

• biotic factors

• populations

• food chains

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is an example of an ecosystem?

• air, water, grass, climate, mushrooms, mule deer, red-tailed hawks

• grass, mushrooms, mule deer, red-tailed hawks

• red-tailed hawks only

• a single mule deer