SCIENCE: ECOSYSTEMS

SCIENCE: HABITATS AND ECOSYSTEMS  

HABITAT, COMMUNITY AND ECOSYSTEM


A habitat is the place where plants and animals live. (o medio físico)


A community is all the plants and animals that live in a habitat (os seres vivos).


The habitat is the place where a community lives.

HABITAT + COMMUNITY  = ECOSYSTEM
Medio físico+ seres vivos = ecosistema


Ecosystem is the group of living and nonliving things interacting with each other.
Ecosystems can be small, like a pond, or big, like a lake.

THE FOOD CHAIN (cadea alimentaria)

Animals and plants need energy to live. They get energy from the food.
A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food. A food chain begins with a plant and ends with an animal.
 
FOOD CHAIN = PRODUCERS+CONSUMERS

• Plants are called producers because they produce their own food.

• Animals can´t make their own food so they need to consume (eat) plants and/or other animals. They are called consumers. 

 "The sun gives energy to the grass, the deer eats the grass, the wolf eats the deer"

There are three groups of CONSUMERS:

•  Herbivores: animals that only eat  plants.

•  Carnivores: animals that only eat other animals.

•  Omnivores: animals that eat plants and animals.

         Humans are also omnivores.

GAMES

• PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT

• HABITAT MAKER

 

• BUILD AN ONLINE HABITAT

• CHOSSE AN HABITAT

•  FOOD CHAINS GAME

• ANIMAL DIET  GAME

•  MEMORY ANIMALS

 NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES

Answer these questions.

1. What is an ecosystem?

2. What is a community?

3. What does a food chain show?

4. What are the three groups of consumers?

Draw a food chain