Unit 1 - Ecosystems

A group of living things and the nonliving environment in which they live.

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

All of the living things with which an organism may interact ex: plants birds

• Biotic

• Abiotic

• Food Chain

The nonliving parts of an environment ex: soil climate

• Abiotic

• Food Chain

• Producers

Bodies of water found in areas where freshwater from rivers and streams and salt water from the ocean meet.

• Herbivores

• Estuary

• Coniferous

Organisms that use energy from the Sun to make their own food through a process called Photosynthesis.

• Food Chain

• Producers

• Consumers

Organisms that get energy by breaking down nutrients in dead organisms.

• Prey

• Predator

• Decomposer

Consumers that eat only plants.

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

A group of organisms of the same species living in the same place.

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

This type of forest has trees that lose their leaves during seasons.

• Deciduous

• Coniferous

• Estuary

These ecosystems are found only on land.

• Aquatic

• Consumers

• Terrestrial