Healthy Echosystem

In Te Ngahere we were working on a piece of explanation writing about “What makes a healthy ecosystem”. Our learning intention was to use the correct structure to write and explanation. I think I did really well at how I described the four elements but I think I need to work on completing it more faster.

What Makes A Healthy Ecosystem

A healthy ecosystem is made up of inorganic matter and organic matter. Inorganic matter is something that is non living like water, sun, air, energy, sand and nutrients. Organic matter are living elements like kina, crayfish, seaweed and sea creatures. All ecosystems must have producers, consumers decomposers and inorganic matter in order to keep the ecosystem healthy.

Producers make the food for consumers like for example, kelp. Then the consumers will eat the producers to collect the energy that they get from the kelp.

Next, the decomposers take the nutrients from the dead sea creatures and restart it all from the beginning and give the nutrients back to the producers.

Ecosystems are very fragile and cannot cope with very big change within the weather. For example, if the kina barrens

keep on multiplying. Then the ecosystem will become unbalanced and will mess up the entire food chain.