An ecosystem is a place where living and non-living things interact, and can exist in various environments from wet to dry and small to large. In an ecosystem, living things depend on each other and non-living things like water, soil and sunlight. Producers like plants make their own food through photosynthesis, while consumers like animals obtain food by eating other organisms, and decomposers like worms break down dead plants and animals and return nutrients to the soil.

1. Are there living things only in this picture?

2. A place where living things and non-living
things interact is called an
ecosystem.

3. It can be wet or dry,
big or small.

4. In an ecosystem , the living
things depend on each other.
But they also depend on the
non-living things.

5. Can you think of the non-living things
they depend on?

6. Water, soil and
sunlight are non-
living things that
living things
depend on in an
ecosystem.

7. What do these living
things eat?

8. Plants make their own food.
They are called
Producers

9. •They use the energy from
the sun to make their
own food.

10. Animals, however, eat other living
organisms.
They are called
Consumers

11. Worms feed on dead plants and
animals.
They break it down and put the
nutrients back into the soil.

12. Worms, bacteria and mushrooms are
called
Decomposers

13. Some animals eat other
animals.

14. The animal that eats other
animals(consumer) is called
Predator

15. The animal(consumer) that gets
eaten by another animal is
called
Prey