Plants And Animals

In The Ecosystem

Objectives:
Classify specific kinds of relationships among
plants and animals within an ecosystem
Explore food chains
 Ecosystems
 What is an ecosystem?
 An ecosystem is all the living and nonliving
things in an area.
 The nonliving parts of an ecosystem are called
abiotic factors.
 The living parts of an ecosystem are called
biotic factors.
 Both Abiotic and Biotic factors play a role, or
niche, in their communities. Communities are
all populations living in an area.
 All ecosystems have the same parts.
 Food Chains
 Within an ecosystem is a food chain.
 What is a food chain?
 A food chain is the path energy takes from
producers to consumers to decomposers.
 Every population, which is all the organisms in
a species living in the same area, need energy
to survive.
 Where does energy come from?
 The energy from the sun is stored in food.
 The energy in food is passed from one
organism to another.
 This Is How A Food Chain
Works

The Sun passes energy to plants. Plants
are producers. They can not make their
own food so something has to produce the
food for them.

 An herbivore, an animal that eats only Decomposers

plants. An omnivore, an animal that eats
both plants and animals, eat the plant.
Carnivore
 A Carnivore comes along and eats the
herbivore or omnivore.

 Carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores are Herbivore or Omnivore

consumers. All three got their energy by
consuming other organisms.

 It all ends with decomposers such as Plants

worms, bacteria, and fungi. Decomposers
break down dead organisms into substances
that can be used by producers. Meaning
the cycle starts all over. Sun
 Food Chain
Sample Food Chain
 Review
 Can anyone tell me what a predator is? What is the
hunted called?
 What is the original source of energy in a food
chain?
 A _______ is the role or activity of an organism in
it’s community.
 What is a community/population?
 What is a producer/consumer?
 What is the relationship between plants and
animals?