It includes living things and nonliving things in an area.

It includes all the living things in an ecosystem.

It can make food from inorganic matter.

Plants make food through the process of __________.

It include the nonliving things such as sunlight, air, water, soil, rocks, and minerals.

It cannot make their own food; thus, they eat the producer.

_______ are living things that only eat plants to get food and the energy they need.

______ only eat meat.

____________ eat both plants and animals to get energy.

____________ break down plants when they die.

It provides energy for the producers to make food through photosynthesis

It provides nutrients and other mineral for producers and serves also as a habitat for certain organisms.

It is the major source of energy in an ecosystem.

__________ is needed by all organisms to grow and survive. No organism can exist without this.

It is also vital for living things. All organisms breath in and breath out the _____

It is the air that humans breath in

It is the air that we breath out.

It is a linear sequence that shows how energy is transferred from producers to the consumers

It consists of many interconnected food chains.