s3 Ecosystem

True or False - Biotic components are the living features of an Ecosystem such as plants and animals?

• True

• False

True or False - Consumers get energy from eating producers?

• True

• False

A complex diagram showing the connections between producers and consumers in an ecosystem is known as what?

• Food chain

• Food web

• Nutrient cycle

• Circle of life

snakes, mice, small birds, crickets, hawks, cactus, tumbleweed

• organism
• community
• population 

plants, rocks, air, sunlight, water, 

• ecosystem 
• population 
• community 

all the snakes in the area 

• organism 
• ecosystem 
• population 

An organism that can make its own food

• decomposer

• producer

• consumer

Small consumers that are hunted and eaten by larger consumers

• producer

• prey

• predator

An animal that hunts and eats other animals for energy

• prey

• predator

• decomposer

These organisms cannot make their own food; they must eat something for energy

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer