Populations and Communities
Habitat: An environment that provides an organism with everything it needs to live, organism with everything it needs to live, grow and reproduce.
What do organisms need to live, grow,and reproduce ? What do organisms need to live, grow,and reproduce ?
Food
Water
Space Space
Shelter
Habitat: An environment that provides an organism with everything it needs to live, grow and reproduce
Organisms live in different environments because they have different requirements
An organism interacts with living and nonliving parts of the environment
Interaction: How organisms in an ecosystem relate to one another
Biotics Living parts of a habitat
Includes: Plants,Predators, Prey, Decomposers
Abiotic Any nonliving part of the environment
Water Required by all organisms Required by all organisms Used to carry out life processes Used to carry out life processes Makes up a large part of body Makes up a large part of body 65% of our body 65% of our body Also used in photosynthesis Also used in photosynthesis
Sunlight Needed for plant growth Needed for plant growth Photosynthesis Photosynthesis
Oxygen
Required by most living things Help them carry on life processes Land organisms receive from air Water organisms get dissolved O 2 from water
Temperature
The temperature of an area Determines the type of organism that lives there Some animals alter their environments or their habits to survive very hot or very cold Dig holes in ground Hunt at night
Soil
Mixture of : Rock fragments Nutrients Air Water Decaying Organisms
Levels of Organizations SpeciesPopulationsCommunities
Species
Group of organisms that are physically similar, can mate and produce offspring
Populations
All the members of one species in a particular area
Communities
All of the different populations that live together in an area
Ecosystem:The community of organisms that live in a particular area and their nonliving surroundings