WHAT ARE ECOSYSTEMS?

Where Things Live

 Living things need a place to live and

grow.
Fish live in water.
Birds live in trees and fly through
the air.
Plants grow where there is soil,
water and sun.
 Main Idea and Details
Living things need
a place to live
and grow.

Plants grow where

Birds live in trees
Fish live in water. there is soil, water
and fly in the air.
and sun.
ENVIRONMENT
 The living and
nonliving things that
surround a living
thing make up its
environment.
What do living things get from their
environments?
 Many living things share their
environments and its resources.
1. Food
2. Water
3. Oxygen
4. Space
 Parts of an Ecosystem
 An ecosystem is made up of all the living
and nonliving things in an environment.
Different types of organisms live
in an ecosystem.

A group of
organisms of
the same kind
living in the
same place is a
population.
All the population that live in an
ecosystem at the same time form a
community.
 All members of a community
live in the same ecosystem but
they do not all live in the same
part of the ecosystem.
 Where Plants and Animals
Live
Habitat is a place where plants
and animals lives.
It is a place where they can meet
their needs.
Animals get food, water, and shelter
from their habitat,
 Organisms and their Habitats

 Some organisms can survive only in

certain habitats.
 For example, a polar could not find the
water it needs in a desert.
Classify Living and Nonliving things

 Living Things  Non Living Things

Fish Air
Water lily Rocks
Plants Cave
Animals Soil
People water
Use the following tree map to write
a lesson summary.
Parts
of an
Ecosystem

Populations Communities Habitats

What are some types of
ecosystems?
Types of Ecosystems
 Deserts are very dry
ecosystems.

 Desert plants and

animals can survive
with very little water.
 Desert Plants
 Desert plants, such as
cactus, have thick
stems that store
water.
 The roots of a cactus
lie just below the soil
and spread far from
the plant.
Grassland Ecosystems
 Grasslands are dry,
often flat areas of
land that are hot in
the summer and cold
in the winter.
 They get more rain
and snow than
deserts but less that
most other
ecosystems.
 Plants
 The main plant in a
grassland ecosystem
is grass.
 There are not many
bushes in the
grassland.
 Trees are found only
by rivers and streams.
 Saltwater Ecosystems
 Saltwater ecosystems are oceans.
 Oceans cover about three –fourths of
Earth’s surface, so there are more
saltwater ecosystems than any other.
Sharks, sea turtles, corals and
octopus are all ocean animals.
So are whales and seals.
 Freshwater Ecosystems
 Rivers, ponds, lakes and
streams have fresh
water.
 Lakes and rivers are
closely tied. Some lakes
are the source for some
rivers. Important rivers,
most often, originate
from lakes. Some rivers
end in lakes.
 Since both rivers and
lakes are freshwater and
flow in and out of each
other, they share similar
characteristics and many
species reside in both
habitats.
Forest Ecosystems

Forest are ecosystems

in which many trees
grow.
 Tropical Rain Forest
 A tropical rain forest
grows where it is hot
and wet all year long.
 Animals such as
jaguars and monkeys
live there.
Deciduous Forest
What's A Temperate
Deciduous Forest Like?
 One of the most interesting
features of the temperate
deciduous forest is its
changing seasons.
 The word "deciduous" means
exactly what the leaves on
these trees do: change color
in autumn, fall off in the
winter, and grow back again
in the spring. This adaptation
helps trees in the forest
survive winter.
Ecosystem What I look like
Desert Hot and dry

Rains every day and has many trees

Rain Forest
and plants

Deciduous Forest Enough rain for trees to grow. They

lose their leaves in the fall.
Freshwater
Ecosystems Made up of rivers, ponds, lakes and
streams and my water does not have
much salt