What A Healthy Ecosystem Needs?

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about what makes a  healthy ecosystem. I think I did really well because I explained what the difference is between an unhealthy and healthy ecosystem looks like and what happens if the ecosystem becomes unbalanced . I enjoyed showing what I learned and next time I am going to put more information into my writing to make it sound interesting.

What A Healthy Ecosystem Needs?

A Healthy Ecosystem is made up of inorganic matter and organic matter.
Inorganic matter is a non living thing like water, air, rocks, nutrients and sun.
Organic matter is a living thing like kina, crayfish, seaweed and other sea creatures.
Also ecosystems needs producers, consumers and decomposers.

What is a Inorganic Matter?

Inorganic matter is a non living thing, like water, rocks, sun, air, nutrients and
other things. Inorganic matter is a part of the ecosystem. Inorganic matter is part of the
food chain, and that's how food chains start.

What is a organic matter?

Organic matter is a living thing, Organic matter is a compound that has carbon,
chemicals and nitrogen. Organic matter has fish, kina’s, carpetshark and crayfish.

What is a producer?

Producers are living things. Producers produce energy for consumers, like kelp.
Kelp gets energy from the sunlight and when the consumer eats the producer it gets
energy.

What is a consumer?

Consumers are living things. Consumer get energy from producers, like kina.
Here is a example, a consumer eats a producers then another consumer comes and
eats the other consumer so it’s like a food chain.

What is a Decomposer?

Decomposers break down dead sea creatures and releases nutrients such as carbon
and nitrogen that goes back into the environment also, means that nutrients goes back
into the ecosystem so the producers can use the nutrients.

When Ecosystems are fragile?

A healthy ecosystem is fragile, and if it becomes unbalanced the sea creatures will
start dying e.g if people keep catching crayfish then the kina will keep eating the kelp,
which means the other sea creatures will start dying because of people catching crayfish.
So now we know about healthy and unhealthy ecosystems.