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Date: May 12, 2016 Aim #81: How is ecology the study of the environment? HW: 1)Practice SAT II completed for Monday 2)Unit 7e due Friday, May 13th Do not forget Castle Learning!! Do Now: Warm-Up Notebook DateTitle of Activity Page # No Warm-Up Today
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Aim #81: How is ecology the study of the environment?
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Finding Nemo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufxGw8EqY5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufxGw8EqY5Q Describe some of the things you saw in the clip. How do these things compare? What do you think the teacher meant when he said the cyanobacteria was a complete ecosystem?
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1) What is the environment? It is every living & nonliving thing that surrounds an organism.
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2) Ecology The branch of science that studies the environment
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Ecology Topics Energy Flow Pollution Energy Production Food Webs (Chains) Population Dynamics Life Cycles Chemicals Organism Adaptations
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What do you see in this fish tank environment?
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3) Components of the Environment a) GROUP 1 b) GROUP 2 Biotic Factors – living things Abiotic Factors – nonliving things Soil, water, space, energy
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What is ecology? Study of how biotic and abiotic factors interact in the environment Gravel Air Fish RocksPlants
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4) What is the smallest level of ecological organization? Organism – an individual living thing
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5) What is a population? All the organisms of a species that live in the same area.
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6) What is a habitat? The place where an animal or plant lives.
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7) COMMUNITY ALL Populations that live together in THE SAME AREA
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7) What is an ecosystem? An ecosystem consists of all the living and nonliving things that interact in a specific area.
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8) Biome Group of terrestrial (land) ecosystems that have the same climate & communities
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a) TROPICAL RAIN FOREST BIOME Characteristics: 1)Abundant Rain 2)Greatest diversity of life 3)Located near the equator
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Brain Pop Tropical Rainforests https://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/tropicalrainf orests/
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9) BIOSPHERE The part of Earth where life exists, including land, water & atmosphere
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10) Can you identify each level? Biosphere Ecosystem Community Population Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere Smallest Largest
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