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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.

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2 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

3 Aim #81: How is ecology the study of the environment?

4 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?

5 1) What is the environment? It is every living & nonliving thing that surrounds an organism.

6 2) Ecology The branch of science that studies the environment

7 Ecology Topics Energy Flow Pollution Energy Production Food Webs (Chains) Population Dynamics Life Cycles Chemicals Organism Adaptations

8 What do you see in this fish tank environment?

9 3) Components of the Environment a) GROUP 1 b) GROUP 2 Biotic Factors – living things Abiotic Factors – nonliving things Soil, water, space, energy

10 What is ecology? Study of how biotic and abiotic factors interact in the environment Gravel Air Fish RocksPlants

11 4) What is the smallest level of ecological organization? Organism – an individual living thing

12 5) What is a population? All the organisms of a species that live in the same area.

13 6) What is a habitat? The place where an animal or plant lives.

14 7) COMMUNITY ALL Populations that live together in THE SAME AREA

15 7) What is an ecosystem? An ecosystem consists of all the living and nonliving things that interact in a specific area.

16 8) Biome Group of terrestrial (land) ecosystems that have the same climate & communities

17 a) TROPICAL RAIN FOREST BIOME Characteristics: 1)Abundant Rain 2)Greatest diversity of life 3)Located near the equator

18 Brain Pop Tropical Rainforests https://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/tropicalrainf orests/

19 9) BIOSPHERE The part of Earth where life exists, including land, water & atmosphere

20 10) Can you identify each level? Biosphere Ecosystem Community Population Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere Smallest Largest


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