What Is An Ecosystem?

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a System of living things​

• Ducks are interacting with other ducks
• Ducks eat plants and bugs
• Plants release oxygen for the ducks to breathe

Between Living and non - Living things

• The duck is swimming in the lake
• Ducks breathe air
• The duck drinks the lake water
• Plants are growing in the lake, taking up nutrients from the water
• Sunlight is absorbing nutrients from the plants converting it into food

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Living to Living

• Fish is swimming through bugs
• Fish eat smaller fish

Living to non - Living

• Fish swims through water
• Plants get nutrients from the sunlight and water

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​​Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. What do living things get from their ecosystems?
2. What evidence do you have to support your answer to Question 1?
3. What does the term ecosystem mean, based on your experience in this lesson? (Don't use the definition from the BIG IDEA here. Put it into your own words.)
4. Brainstorm at least one question you have about Ecosystems that you hope you learn from this unit.
5. Look at the image below that shows a portion of a forest ecosystem. Name at least five components (living or non-living things) of the ecosystem that you can either observe directly or infer. 
6. What are three (or more) interactions that might occur in this portion of the forest ecosystem?

 

Answers

1. Normally the basics are getting soil natural sunlight, food and sometimes water depending on what type of habitat you live in. 
2. Well if you are an organism, you get most of these things unless you are a plant or bug you don;'t get as much soil. This all depends on the habitat the living organism is living in. The sunlight gives energy to the plants and the soil gives the plants nutrition too.
3. An ecosystem is a living habitat with living and non - living organisms.
4. What are some of the adaptions that make different animals live in there ecosystems?
5. Water, grass, rocks, deer, flowers and trees
6. The deer could interact with the others bushes to eat berries or other foods on it and the deer can interact with others deer too! Finally, the deer can drink the water from the stream.