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1. UNIT 6 THE
BIOSPHERE
NEREA CALONGE
CHINCHILLA
5º DE PRIMARIA
AÑO 2016

2. THE BIOSPHERE
 The biosphere is the largest ecosystem, because is made
up of Earth planet and all the living and non-living things
that inhabit it.

4. LIVING THINGS
IN A ECOSYSTEM
CAN BE….
PRODUCERS CONSUMERS DECOMPOSERS

5. THE SUN
PRODUCER
PRIMARY
CONSUMER
SECONDARY
CONSUMER
TERTIARY
CONSUMER
DESCOMPOSER

7. PRODUCERS
 Living things that produce their own food from:
-SUNLIGHT
-WATER
-MINERALS SALTS
-SOIL
(plants and algae).

8. sunlight water
Minerals
salts
soil

9. CONSUMERS
SECONDARY CONSUMERS are animal that eat other animals
(carnivorous)
PRIMARY CONSUMERS are animals that eat plants (herbivores)
Living things that eat other living things (animals)
TERTIARY CONSUMERS are animals that eat
secondary consumers.

10. EXAMPLES OF PRIMARY
CONSUMERS
 RABBITS,INSECTS,
GRASSHOPPERS,COWS,
HORSES……..

11. EXAMPLES OF SECUNDARY
CONSUMERS
 OWLS,FOXES,
LIONS,TIGERS…….

12. PREDATORS are carnivorous animals
that hunt other animals for food.
SCAVENGERS are carnivorous
animals that eat the dead bodies of other
animals.
PARASITES feet of living things
without killing them.
Examples of tertiary
consumers

13. EXAMPLES OF TERTIARY
CONSUMERS AND THE EXAMPLES
 HAWKS
 PREDATORS:PANTHER,
LYNX,LEOPARD

14.  SCAVENGERS:VULTURES,
EAGLES,HYENAS

15.  PARASITES:MOSQUITOES,
LOUSE, FLEA,SPIDER

17. DESCOMPOSERS
Living things that descompose the ramins of other animals and
plants so the minerals of these living things return to the soil.
(Fungi and Bacteria)
Food chains are connected to one another by their food
relationship.