6. Can you only see living things in the ecosystem ?
Sun
7. a place where living and non living things interact .
The ecosystem can be big like an ocean or small like a pond.
It can be wet like the sea or dry like the desert.
Ecosystem
14. Consumers
A panda eats plants like
bamboo or animals like : fish
A lion eats other animals .
All animals can NOT make their own food like plants, they get their energy by
consuming (eating) other animals or plants .
All animals are called consumers .
15. Dinosaurs were extinct along time ago, so we only saw their skeletons.
BUT, where did their body go ?
16. Decomposers
• worm and bacteria feed on the dead bodies of animals and
plants .
• They are called Decomposers.
Worms Bacteria
25. All consumers get energy by eating other animals or plants .
Some consumers only eat plants
Other consumers only eat animals
Others can eat both plants and animals
Plants
only
Animals
only
Animals
only
30. Let’s play a game
(click the link below )
Game 1 :
http://www.switchzoo.com/games/pleasedofeedtheanimals.htm
Game 2 :
http://www.to14.com/game.php?id=4d486a3012bf4
31. Prey and predator
A consumer can be a predator or a prey.
Predator Prey
Consumers that eat the prey . Consumers that are eaten .
In these pictures the predators are :
• The Wild cat
• The Eagle
• The Cheetah
In these pictures the preys are :
• The Rabbit
• The Fish
• The Gazelle
32. An animal can be a prey and a predator too !!
In the first picture the snake was a prey , but in the 2nd picture it’s the predator .
Predator Prey
Eagle Snake
Predator Prey
Snake Mouse
33. How many predators and preys can you find here ?
Predator Prey
Eagle Snake
Predator Prey
Eagle Snake
Snake Mouse
Predator Prey
Eagle Snake
Snake Mouse
Mouse Grasshopper
When the eagle dies the
Decomposers will breakdown the
body and turn it into nutrients.
34. The food chain
Show the flow of energy from one living organism to another .
Energy
diesEnergyEnergyEnergy
When the lion dies the
Decomposers will breakdown the
body and turn it into nutrients.
Energy
Nutrients
36. Food web
In an ecosystem you can see many animals
eating the Same plant or the same animal.
This will form a Food web made of many
Food chains connected together.
Food web :
Made up of many food
chains connected together .
37.
38. Interdependency: Every organism depends on other organisms to survive.
What would happen if one living organism disappeared ?
Example : if the grass didn’t get any sunlight.
Grass dies > grasshopper dies > rat dies >snake dies > hawk dies
39. Game 1 click link
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.swf
Game 2 click link
https://ecokids.ca/swf-files/gamesPage/chain_reaction.swf
Game 3 (food web) click link
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/ecosystems/line_experiment14.swf
Let’s play some games