An ecosystem consists of all living and non-living things in an environment and their interactions. It includes plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and other organisms as well as habitat elements like soil, air, water, climate, and temperature. Living things interact with each other and their physical environment. Ecosystems can be small, like a pond, or large, like a rainforest or the entire biosphere. Terrestrial ecosystems include forests and grasslands while aquatic ecosystems include freshwater environments like rivers and lakes as well as marine environments like the sea. Human activities like pollution, deforestation, and climate change threaten biodiversity and stability of ecosystems.
An ecosystem consists of all living and non-living things in an environment and their interactions. It includes plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and other organisms as well as habitat elements like soil, air, water, climate, and temperature. Living things interact with each other and their physical environment. Ecosystems can be small, like a pond, or large, like a rainforest or the entire biosphere. Terrestrial ecosystems include forests and grasslands while aquatic ecosystems include freshwater environments like rivers and lakes as well as marine environments like the sea. Human activities like pollution, deforestation, and climate change threaten biodiversity and stability of ecosystems.
An ecosystem consists of all living and non-living things in an environment and their interactions. It includes plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and other organisms as well as habitat elements like soil, air, water, climate, and temperature. Living things interact with each other and their physical environment. Ecosystems can be small, like a pond, or large, like a rainforest or the entire biosphere. Terrestrial ecosystems include forests and grasslands while aquatic ecosystems include freshwater environments like rivers and lakes as well as marine environments like the sea. Human activities like pollution, deforestation, and climate change threaten biodiversity and stability of ecosystems.
An ecosystem consists of all the living things in a physical
environment, and their interaction with their habitat and between the different living things. Ecosystems can be small, like a pond, or large, like a rainforest or the biosphere (is the largest ecosystem).
COMPONENTS LIVING THINGS Plants in an ecosystem are called flora. Animals are called fauna. There are also fungi, bacteria and algae. HABITAT It refers to the non-living things elements of a place which affect livings things, such as soil, air, water, climate and temperature. INTERACTION The interaction established between the different living things and between the living things and the physical environment. SONG: Ecosystem Song
Label the elements in the ecosystem. Aquatic plants- fish- bird- rabbit-rocks-frog-tree- deer-snake-sun-air-water-sand-crab-grass
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS: Forests, grasslands and desserts are terrestrial ecosystems. Many livings things live in forests and grasslands. The abundant vegetations provide them with food. Few living things live in deserts because there is little food.
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS: rivers and lakes
MARINE ECOSYSTEMS: the sea
Vdeo: Learning about ecosystems Read the text and answer these questions.
PRESENTATION: FOOD CHAINS
ONLINE GAME: FOOD CHAIN
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS: POLLUTION: Pollution is the contamination of air, soil and water. GLOBAL WARMING: The Earth releases heat into space. Carbon dioxide in the environment stops this heat from escaping. As the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing the Earths temperature is being higher. DEFORESTATION: It is the loss of forests. People cut down trees for wood and to make space for farmland. LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY: Biodiversity is all the species of living things in an ecosystem. Pollution, global warming and deforestation are causing the extinction of many species.
Vdeo: Pollution
SONG: GOING GREEN
There are many things we can do to protect the environment: - Save water: having showers instead of baths. - Save electricity. - Save fuel: using public transport. - Recycle some materials (paper, glass, plastic ) - Protect natural spaces and endangered species. - Reduce pollution.