7. NON - LIVING THINGS
(ABIOTIC FACTOR)
This is everything which affects these living things.
For example:
- Temperature
- Water
- Type of soil
- Types of rock.
11. LIVING THINGS
Living things have different needs to live.
They live in places where they can satisfy their
needs.
12. LIVING THINGS
All plants need water and sunlight. However…
WEEPING WILLOWS
They need a lot of water.
They usually grow near rivers.
CACTI
They don’t need much water.
They grow in deserts.
13. LIVING THINGS
Animals need different things, too.
Fish need to live in
water to breathe.
Some birds need to live in a place with
trees so they can build their nests.
14.
15.
16. FORESTS
They have a lot of trees.
These provide food and shelter for animals.
30. FEEDING RELATIONSHIPS
PRODUCERS
Plants produce their own food. They are called
producers.
(autotrophs)
Plants are essential to ecosystems because they
produce the food which all other living things
need.
39. FOOD CHAIN
To show how living things feed off other living
things in an ecosystem, we can draw them in a
row and link them with arrows.
This is called
a food chain.
43. FOOD CHAIN
In a food chain, the animal that eats the
producer is called a primary consumer.
The other consumers are called secondary
consumers, tertiary consumers, final
consumers, etc.
51. COMPETITION
Sometimes living things compete with each
other. They fight to get what they need
because they need the same thing.
We call this competition.
52. COMPETITION
• Plants compete for sunlight.
Some plants grow
very tall quickly.
They block the sunlight
from other plants.
57. COOPERATION
Some plants make nectar in
their flowers.
Insects like nectar very much.
As Insects move from flower
to flower to obtain nectar,
they pollinate plants.
58. COOPERATION
The shrimp helps the moray by eating its parasites.
The moray helps the shrimp by providing food: The
parasites.