What is an ecosystem and what lives inside one?
Pond Team Players
What is an ecosystem and what lives inside one?
Picture a pond on a summer morning. Frogs, dragonflies, mud, sunlight, the smell of green. It looks like a bunch of separate things — but it isn't. It's one big team, all tangled together, and that team has a name: an ecosystem.
An ecosystem is every living thing in one place, PLUS all the nonliving stuff around them — the water, the soil, the air, the sunshine. The trick is the word "plus." It's not just the creatures. It's the creatures AND their whole stage set, working as one.
