Ecosystems

Too few animals or plants in an area can cause other animals to go hungry or die.

• scarcity

• habitat

• community

LIVING things in an ecosystem

• biotic

• abiotic

• ecosystem

The living and nonliving things in an environment or area.

• ecosystem

• food web

• abiotic

An organism that can make its own food

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

NON-living things found in an ecosystem

• biotic

• abiotic

• ecosystem

Choose the biotic factor

• rock

• rain

• berry bush

Could the following factor lead to extinction?

Climate change

• yes

• no

An animal that hunts and eats other animals for energy

• predator

• prey

• producer

Interacting food chains found in an ecosystem

• food web

• decomposer

• habitat

Breaks down and feeds on the remains of other organisms

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer