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Ecosystem
Focuses
Vocabulary Matching Game
 Picture
of Matching Game Pieces
Answer each question on your Ecosystem Focus Sheet.
1. What term refers to all the members of one species in a particular
area?
Population
2. What do we call all the different populations that live in an area?
Community
3. What term refers to all the living and nonliving things that interact in
an area?
Ecosystem
4. Organize these terms from the smallest to the largest.
1. Community 2. Organism (species) 3. Ecosystem 4. Population
Organism  Population  Community  Ecosystem
* Bonus: What do we call a scientist who studies how living things
interact with each other and their environment?
Ecologist
Write down the following statements/questions
on your Ecosystem Focus Sheet. Answer using
the following choices.
Ecosystem Habitat Community Population
1. All the living and non living things in an area.
Ecosystem
2. All the ants in an anthill.
Population
3. An area that provides food and shelter.
Habitat
4. Fish, frogs, turtles, lily pads and dragonflies are all
members of the same what?
Community
5. All the blackbirds in your neighborhood.
Population
Write down the following statements/questions
on your Ecosystem Focus Sheet. Answer using
the following choices.
Ecosystem Habitat Community Population
1. A forest.
Ecosystem
2. The damp soil within a forest in which a
mushroom grows.
Habitat
3. Different populations that live together in a
particular area.
Community
4. A prairie dog, a hawk, and a badger all
members of the same what? Habitat
On your ecosystem focus sheet, answer the
following questions. 1. Name the living things in
the food web that are
producers.
Wildflowers and Grass
2. Name the living things in
the food web that are
consumers. Rabbit,
Mouse, Snake and Hawk
3. Which living things does
the snake eat?
Mouse and Rabbit
On your ecosystem focus sheet, write down the
following words and state whether each living
thing is a producer, consumer, or decomposer.
1.Apple tree P
2.MushroomD
3.Dragonfly C
4.Cougar C
5.Daffodil P
6.Snake C
7. Hawk C
8. Carrot P
9. Bamboo P
10. BacteriaD
11. Pigeon C
12. Catfish C
On your ecosystem focus sheet, answer the
following questions.
1. Which living things
does the hawk eat?
Snake, Mouse and Rabbit
2. What is eaten by the
rabbit?
Wildflowers and Grass
On your ecosystem focus sheet, write down the
predator and prey for each scenario. Yes, writing
down the whole sentence will be helpful for
studying for future tests.
1. A snapping turtle in a pond eats a small
perch. predator
prey
2. A shrew is eaten by a barn owl.
predator
prey
prey
3. A seagull lands near and alligator and the
predator
alligator eat it.
4. A gray wolf hunts and eats a rabbit.
predator
prey
On your ecosystem focus sheet, write down the
predator and prey for each scenario. Yes, writing
down the whole sentence will be helpful for
studying for future tests.
predator
prey
1. A blue whale swallows krill.
prey
2. A penguin is captured and eaten by a
leopard seal. predator
predator
prey
3. A robin pulls an earthworm from the lawn
and its it.
Extra Slides
On your ecosystem focus sheet, write and
match up the following words and
definitions.
1.
2.
3.
Ecologist
Ecology
Ecosystem
A.
B.
C.
A scientist who studies how
living things interact with their
environment.
All living and non-living things
that interact in an area
The study of the interactions
that take place between
organisms and their
environment