ecosystem

1. TERRESTRIAL
ECOSYSTEMS
Created by: Alicia Egea Atiénzar.

2. WHAT IS AN ECOSYSTEM?
• An ecosystem is a community
of living things that interact
with each other and with the
physical world.

3. EXAMPLES OF ECOSYSTEMS
• Desert.
• Tundra.
• Grasslands.
• Tropical rainforest.
• Coniferous forests.
• Temperate decidious forests.
• Mediterranean forests.

4. DESERT
• Climate: Arid or desert climate.
• Located: North Africa, Asia
Minor, and central and western
Australia. Arizona, United
States; northern Mexico, South
America and part of Central Asia.
• Animals: Bobcat, coyote, barn
owl, desert tortoise, iguana…
• Plants: Pencil plant, paddle plant,
living stone, zebra cactus, golden
barrel…

5. PRODUCERS
• A living thing that can make
its own food.
• Plants, trees, flowers…

6. CONSUMERS
• A living thing that gets its
food from eating other living
things.
• Polar bear eating a fish, a
bird eating a berry, a zebra
eating grass.

7. DESCOMPOSERS
• A living thing that breaks
down other living thing
things to get nutrients and
energy.
• Vultures eat dead animals,
worms and beetles eat dead
decaying plants…

8. POPULATION
• A group of living things that
live in the same place at the
same time.
• Many penguins live in the
artic; many elephants live in
the African Savanna.

9. COMMUNITY
• When different populations
live together in the same
habitat and interact with
each other.
• Elephants, giraffes, and
zebras all live together in
the Savanna.

10. HABITAT
• A habitat is a home
environment for plants and
animals or other organisms.
• Desert, meadow, woodland.

11. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION