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 swims in the lake 
• ​Ducks breathe air
• Ducks drink lake water
• Plants are taking nutrients from the water
  
• Sunlight is getting absorbed by plants and turned into food
  

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Living To Living

• ​​The fish eats smaller fish

Living To Non-Living

• Fish swims through water
• ​Plants get nutrients from water
• Plants get nutrients from sun

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?

1. Living things get nutrients, shelter and protection from their ecosystem.​
2. For instance, when apes are in the rainforest, they get berries and fruits from their ecosystem. And when there is rain or a predator, they could take cover in the trees of the rainforest.
3. An ecosystem is a habitat where living and non-living things interact with each other.
4. Some questions I have that I hope will get answered in the following lessons are:

• How big can an ecosystem be, a​nd how small?
• If there were to be life on other planets, would there be ecosystems, or are there only ecosystems on earth?

    5. There is the plants, deer, bugs, water, and rocks.
    6. 

• The deer are eating the grass,
  
• The deer ar drinking from the water
• The plants are getting the nutrients from the sun and turning it into food.