Ecosystems

What is ecosystems

• living things

• a community

• community of living and non-living things n their natural environment

• grocery store

What are organisms

• non-living things

• living things

• animals

• people

Organisms need what to survive

• water

• electronics

• food

• air

Organisms help energy move through their ecosystem when they eat

• False

• True

Who studies how animals get their food so that they can understand how energy flows through an ecosystem

• Teacher

• Grocery store worker

• Mechanics

• Scientists

All living things can be classified as a producer, consumer, or decomposer

• True

• False

What is a producer

• organisms that break down dead organisms to get energy, as well as return to the soil to help life continue

• organisms that make their food

• organisms that can not make their own food, so they eat other organisms

What is a consumer

• organisms that make their own food

• organisms that cannot make their own food, so they eat other organisms

• organisms that break down dead organisms to get energy

What is a decomposer

• organisms that cannot make their own food, so they eat other organisms

• organisms that make their own food

• organisms that break down dead organisms to get energy, as well as return nutrients to the soil to help life continue

What shows how energy is passed from one organism to another in an ecosystem

• life chain

• food chain

• map

• drawing