SCIENCE

JUSTYN CLOIE FERMA SAMPANG

QUARTER 2

THE ECOSYSTEM

The ecosystem includes living and non-living things. Living

things is called biotic and non-living things are called abiotic.
When they work together they form the ecosystem.
The ecosystem has food chains. The food chain includes a
producer and consumers. An example of a food chain is this:
Caterpillar eaten by a bird then eaten by a snake then eaten
by an owl. When there is a dead body, the scavengers will
eat the dead body. When they are done tiny organisms take
over and break up the tissue of the dead body.

There are three different types of consumer, a herbivore, a carnivore and an

omnivore.
A herbivore only eats plants which are the producer.

A carnivore eats flesh.

And an omnivore eats both meat and plants.

SYMBOSIS
The ecosystem has different relationships.
Symbiosis is any relation that involves two or more species
living and interaction together. Types of Symbiosis
relationship are:
Mutualism refers to the relationship between two
organisms where both benefit.
Commensalism is a relationship between two species in
which one benefit and the other one neither benefit nor
harmed.
Parasitism is a symbiotic relationship where an organism
is benefited and the other is harmed. The one benefiting
is the parasite inside the host.

Predation is the consumption of one living organism, plant, or

animal by another. Its also known as predator-prey relationship.
An example is a spider eating a cricket, or a lion eating an
antelope.
In the ecosystem, there also will have competitions. There are
two types of competition. Intraspecific is a type of competition
among organism of the same kind. And interspecific is a type of
competition among organisms of different kind.
Some biotic organisms uses cooperation. Cooperation is a type
of interaction where organisms cooperate with each other for
PREDATION
survival.
COOPERATION

COMPETITION