5. ECOSYSTEMS
AN ECOSYSTEM IS A NATURAL SYSTEM CONSISTING OF:
• LIVING THINGS: PLANTS AND ANIMALS
• THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT: TEMPERATURE,
WATER, SOIL, ROCKS...
6. TYPES OF ECOSYSTEMS :
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
FOREST PRAIRIE DESERT
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
FRESHWATER SALT WATER
7.
8. RELATIONS
among living things in an ecosystem are
given different relationships:
relations of power
competitive relationship
cooperative relationships
9. in ecosystems
producers: plants make their own food.
consumers
primary: herbivores animals
secondary: carnivorous animals
Acacia Antelope Leopard
12. food chains
• the food chain is the way to represent the mode in
which is feed on living things in an ecosystem
producer primary consumer secondary consumer
carrot Rabbit Genet
13. LINKS OF FOOD CHAINS
• EACH ANIMALS CHAIN DEPENDS ON ANOTHER
LIVING BEING TO FEED.
SHORT-TOED EAGLE
ACORNS MOUSE CULEBRA
14. COMPETITION
• THE LIVING BEINGS COMPETE WHEN
THEY HAVE A NEED.
• PLANTS COMPETE FOR SUNLIGHT, GROW
MORE QUICKLY.
• ANIMALS COMPETE FOR FOOD,
TERRITORY.
15. THE COOPERATION
• THE COORPORACIÓN OCCURS WHEN TWO LIVING
BEINGS ARE COLLABORATING AND WILL BENEFIT
HERMIT AND ANEMONE CRAB CROCODILE AND PLOVER
20. The deforestation
deforestation is the
loss of forests for
timber or crops
when forests
disappear, disappear
also the animals that
inhabit
21. THE EROSION
trees are cut when the
ground is bare and the
rain and the wind drag the
ground.
soil loss is called erosion
and damages the
ecosystem even more
22. the overhunting
overexploitation occurs when
an ecosystem take more
animals or plants they
produce.
an example is tuna fishing has
endangered the survival of
spice
ecosystem protection
ecosystems are protected by the
laws of the declaration space-
protecting national parks as an
example of this is the park closes
snowfall santamarta