Living and non-living things in a mini-ecosystem worksheet for Grade 2.

📚 Topic Summary

Everything around us can be classified as either living or non-living. Living things, like plants and animals, need food, water, and air to survive. They can grow, move, and reproduce. Non-living things, like rocks, water, and air, do not need these things and cannot grow or reproduce. A mini-ecosystem is a small environment where living and non-living things interact with each other. For example, a garden is a mini-ecosystem where plants (living) grow in soil (non-living) and need water (non-living) and sunlight (non-living) to survive and provide food for insects (living).

🌱 Part A: Vocabulary

Match the term with the correct definition:

1. Ecosystem
2. Living
3. Non-living
4. Habitat
5. Organism

1. A place where an organism lives.
2. A community of living things interacting with each other and their environment.
3. Anything that is or was once alive.
4. An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
5. Anything that has never been alive.

💧 Part B: Fill in the Blanks

Use the words below to fill in the blanks in the paragraph.

Words: sunlight, water, living, non-living, air

A mini-ecosystem needs both ______ and ______ things to survive. Plants, which are ______, need ______ , ______, and ______ to grow. Rocks are examples of ______ things.

🤔 Part C: Critical Thinking

Give an example of a mini-ecosystem you might find in your backyard or at a park. Describe the living and non-living things you might find there, and how they interact.