Human Impact on an

Australian Ecosystem
Student Name: ETHAN
Ecosystems and their
communities
Part 1
Endangered species profile
• Endangered species: Grasslands Earless Dragon
• Conservation status: endergered
• What role does it have (e.g. is it a carnivore,
herbivore, omnivore, decomposer, etc.)?: carnivore
• Ecosystem it is found in:
• Biome: grasslands and Derserts
• Habitat: wallaby grasses, tussock grasses and spear
grasses.
• Microhabitat: shelters in burrows and under rocks.
Diagram of ecosystem
• 4 abiotic factors in the
ecosystem: sands,
rocks, and mountains

• 4 biotic factors in the

ecosystem: bush, grass,
kangaroo, wonbats,
cactus, plants, trees
and lizards.
 Relationships with other species
• Describe 3 relationships that your species has in
their ecosystem. The relationships can be with
different species or within the same species.
Foxes eat the grasslands earless dragon
Eats plants
It lives with other lizards
Food chain
• Describe what is happening in
this food chain (who eats who):
its starts with the grasshopper
eating grass then the bluebird
eats the grasshopper, and the
snake it’s the bird and the owl
eats the snake, then the owl dies
then it is decompose into grass
and then it starts again
Human impacts on
ecosystems
Part 2
Human impact
• What is one human • Describe two effects
impact that has an that the human impact
effect on your chosen has on your animal.
ecosystem? The polluted atmosphere
Hunting, polluted the and hunting
atmosphere and people
drained lots of fusil fields
like oil.
Changes in environmental
management techniques
over time
Part 3
Helping fix the problem…
• List one method how • Describe the method
scientists are trying to you have listed. Explain
protect and save your what the scientists are
species. doing.
by creating place’s to Giving them better
take of the recourse and.
GED(Grasslands Earless
Dragon)
Fixing the problem
• How do you think the • Taking them to place’s
current method to save that they won’t get
your animal could be eaten
improved? List 2 ideas. • Make sure the
enrolment is in good
coition.
Helping Fix the Problem
• How did we used to help minimise impact on this
ecosystem in the past? By ignore the land and
messing up the enrolment

• Are the new methods better or worse than the old

methods? Why?
Well it’s worse because where building stuff in the
enrolment polluted the atmosphere.

Challenge question: Not scored