1. Draw a food web for you (the animals/plants that you eat)
Journal #14
Draw a food web for you (the animals/plants that you eat)

2. Ecology

3. Today’s Learning Goal
Today, we will analyze food webs and identify organisms as either producers or consumers.

4. Ecosystems
___________________-A community of organisms and the environment that the organisms inhabit
The largest ecosystem- ___________________
___________________-Organisms that maker their own food
Examples: Plants
___________________-Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms
Example: Cats, Humans
___________________-Consumers that get their energy by breaking down dead organisms
Some bacteria

5. Balancing Forces
______________________________________-The largest population that an environment can support at any given time
Depends on the available resources
Changes in any one part of an ecosystem may affect the entire system in unpredictable ways
Example: Forest fire
The ultimate source for almost every ecosystem is the ___________________
Plants capture solar energy through ___________________

6. Food Chains & Webs
___________________the sequence in which organisms consume other organisms
Many organisms eat more than one species so a food web is used to represent relationships between multiple food chains.

8. Humans and the Environment
Humans are part of the global ecosystem.
Stewardship of Earth’s resources is important to maintaining healthy ecosystems