1. Ecology & Organisms A survey of the most important concepts

2. SOCRATIVE PREQUIZ  On your cell phone, download the Socrative app OR navigate to www.socrative.com on your browser. www.socrative.com  Go into Room 68AAD8BC

3. Ecology  Ecology is the study of the interactions among living things and their surroundings  How do organisms relate to each other?  How does the environment relate to organisms?

4. Ecology + Organization  Ecology organizes biotic and abiotic factors into levels of complexity  BIOTIC – living things  ABIOTIC – nonliving things

5. Examples of biotic factors? Examples of abiotic factors? Abiotic factors balance and change what biotic factors can survive

6. Ecology + Organization  The 1 st, most simple level is the single organism  Example: In a swamp in the Florida Everglades, a single turtle

7. Ecology + Organization  2 nd Level: The Population  A group of the same species that live together in one area  Example: All the turtles in the swamp

8. Ecology + Organization  3 rd Level: The Community  A group of different species that live together in one area  Example: the turtles, alligators, birds, fish, and plants in the swamp

9. Ecology + Organization  4 th Level: The Ecosystem  All the organisms and all the abiotic factors (soil water, climate, rocks, etc.) in one area  Ecosystems can vary in size and be nested (one ecosystem inside another)

10. Ecology + Organization  5 th Level: The Biome  A major regional or global community of organisms  Biomes are characterized by the climate conditions and communities that thrive there

11. Ecology + Organization  6 th (Last, most complicated) Level: The Biosphere  All the ecosystems on Earth (everywhere life exists)

12. Ecology + Organization  Crash Course Ecology Video