Ecosystem Chapter 5

Chapter Five

Ecosystems

Lesson One:  What is an ecosystem?

ecosystem, population, habitat, community

Lesson Two:  How do living things get energy?

producer, consumer, decomposer, food chain, food web

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This will be a separate assessment.

Lesson Three:  How do ecosystems change?

adaptation

Lesson Four:  What can we learn from fossils?

extinct, fossils

Science Study Guide for Lessons 1 and 2 ONLY/Chapter 5

·        Know all the vocabulary from lessons one and two: ecosystem, habitat, population, community, producer, consumer, decomposer, food chain, food web

·        Know the difference between a carnivore, omnivore, and herbivore.

·        Be able to explain how parts of an ecosystem interact and depend on one another.  Give an example.  (example:  frogs eat flies)

·        Be able to identify different populations within an ecosystem.

·        Know the differences between a producer, consumer and decomposer and identify examples of each.

·        Know what can happen to an ecosystem if part of it was destroyed. How would it affect the other parts?

·        Use the lesson checks for 1 and 2 as a study tool.