Thu Thu Han

• Ecosystem

  A community of plants, animals and microorganisms living in a particular place, reacting together and with physical features such as rocks, soils, and weather conditions
• Living in an ecosystem

  • A bird fly across the sky
  • An insect buzz as it pass by
  • See as part of a city street ecosystem
  • Have more components than this
  • Move to park or countryside to see more plants, birds, insects and other animal groups like mammals, amphibians and molluscs
• Living things


  React with non-living things
• Non-living parts of a city street ecosystem

  • Glass and concrete walls
  • Tarmac road
  • Hot air containing exhaust gases from vehicles
• Non-living parts of a natural ecosystem

  • Soil under the grass (minerals it contains and particles which let water drain through it)
  • Cleaner air with greater range of temperature due to weather
• Habitat: a place where a plant,animal or microbe lives
• Community: all the living organisms that live in habitat.
• Environment: the surroundings of a living thing.
• Ecosystem:a community of living things and their environment
• Biodiversity: a term used to describe the number and variety of species in an ecosystem.
• Herbivore:an animal that only eats plants
• Carmnivore:the animals that only eat other animal.
• Omnivore: an animal that eats both plants and animals.
• Predator:an animal that feed or preys on other animal
• Prey:an animal that is eaten by or falls prey to a predators
• Producer:an organism that produces food at the beginning of a food chain (usually a plant)
• Consumer:an animal that eats plants,other animal or both.
• Primary consumer:an animal that eats plants or other animals (sometime herbivore and sometime Omnivore)
• Secondary consumer:an animal that eats primary consumers.
• Tertiary consumer: an organism that eats secondary consumers.
• Quaternary consumer:an animal that eats tertiary consumers.
• Top carnivore: the animal at the end of the food chain
• Food chain:a description of the way some organisms in a hbitat are linked to each other through feeding.