What Is Ecology
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An ecosystem is the interacting system of a biological community and its non-living physical environment. It includes biotic factors like organisms and biotic factors like air, water, and mineral soil. Ecologists study ecosystems and the interactions between organisms and their environments, including food chains, nutrient cycles, and relationships between species like predator-prey dynamics. Examples of ecosystems discussed include rainforests, which have structural layers and species that depend on each other for survival.
What Is Ecology
- 1. Sit in the same number Warmup. What are five things you’d expect to see in nature? What makes a habitat?
- 2. What is ecology? The Study of Ecosystems So what is an ecosystem!
- 3. Careers Ecologists, Doctors Disease specialists Forestry Wildife management
- 10. Food and energy needs What do organisms need to survive? How do organisms get what they need?
- 11. Food Chains How do food chains work
- 12. Nutrient Cycles How do nutrients move in an ecosystem. Decomposers watson
- 13. Biomes Learn about the different biomes in the world. Deserts, Icy tundra, Ocean
- 14. Discussion What are 5 things you would expect to see in nature What is an ecosystem?
- 15. Posters List as many important factors and characteristics of an ecosystem as you can Come up with a definition of an ecosystem. Important Characteristics: . . . . . . .
- 16. Two Groups Come up with two groups you can fit everything from your ecosystem into.
- 18. How can we add biotic and abiotic to our definitions. You definition should fit with the following official book definition: An ecosystem is an area with interacting biotic and abiotic factors
- 19. Make a list of biotic factors Make a list of Abiotic factors How do they affect each other.
- 20. What is an ecosystem? Write four things you notice about this ecosystem
- 22. Ecosystems- What are the biotic and abiotic factors?
- 24. Summary What is an ecosystem? What is the difference Between Biotic and Abiotic Homework Give a description of the ecosystem at home. Describe your house, your yard, your neighborhood etc. list 3 biotic and 3 abiotic factors and describe how at least one biotic and abiotic factor interact Safety contract
- 25. Rain forest Layers of living things Plants Water Frogs have distress calls Ants are a population that depends on each other. Build a home in the soil Depend on leaves that grow fungus How did the snake stay safe? Where does the giant frog live? What are its adaptations that allow it to live in the tree? 688-693