1. Do Now Activity
State the difference between a producer and a consumer.
What is the similarity between populations and communities?
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?

2. Section 7-1: ecology Essential Question:
How are consumers affected by the process of photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
Learning Target
Explain how photosynthesis and cellular respiration results in energy flow from producers to top level consumers.
Section 7-1: ecology

3. Check the class calendar!
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4. announcements Available Extra Credit: Tissue Box = 10 Points CP
Starburst Original Jellybeans = 30 Points CP
Stauffer’s Original Animal Crackers = 30 Points CP

5. Don’t forget to chunk your notes!

6. ________ is the study of organisms and their environments.
Overview: ecology
ECOLOGY
Ecology
________ is the study of organisms and their environments.

7. Overview: ecology
Organism to Organism
Environment to Organism
Organism to Environment
In ecology we study the affect one thing has on another.

8. Overview: Levels of organization pg. 64
DEFINITION
PICTURE
Individual
A single (one) organism
Population
Community
Ecosystem
Biome
Biosphere

10. Overview: Levels of organization pg. 64
DEFINITION
PICTURE
Individual
A single (one) organism
Population
groups of individuals of the same species in the same area
Community
different populations that live together in a defined area
Ecosystem
All living and nonliving parts of an area
Biome
a region with many ecosystems that have the same climate
Biosphere
wherever life exists, including land, water and air (atmosphere)

11. All ecological studies occur in the _______ .
Overview: ecology
BIOSPHERE
All ecological studies occur in the _______ .
biosphere

12. Don’t forget to chunk your notes!

13. SUNLIGHT IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF ENERGY FOR LIFE ON EARTH
producers
SUNLIGHT IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF ENERGY FOR LIFE ON EARTH
Some organisms rely on energy stored in inorganic chemical compounds…
…Water can be loaded with chemical energy!

14. ALL ENERGY comes from the sun
producers
ALL ENERGY comes from the sun

15. producers
Producers “produce” their own food using energy from the sun. ____ are producers.
In the blank: plants
Example: Plants! They use sunlight, water and CO2 to make energy and oxygen…
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Plants

16. What process do plants use to make their own food from the sun?
Question!
What process do plants use to make their own food from the sun?

17. producers Photosynthesis Uses Light energy carbon dioxide (CO2)
water (H2O)
Photosynthesis Makes
oxygen (O2)
glucose (C6H12O6)

18. Don’t forget to chunk your notes!

19. Consumers and producers use _______ to turn FOOD INTO ENERGY.
Why eat food?
Consumers and producers use _______ to turn FOOD INTO ENERGY.
cellular respiration

20. When consumers eat food, it is broken down into ________ .
Why eat food?
When consumers eat food, it is broken down into ________ .
sugar

21. When consumers breathe, they take in _____ .
Why eat food?
oxygen
When consumers breathe, they take in _____ .

22. GLUCOSE+ 6OXYGEN  6CARBON DIOXIDE + 6WATER + ATP
Formula
GLUCOSE+ 6OXYGEN  6CARBON DIOXIDE + 6WATER + ATP

23. Don’t forget to chunk your notes!

24. Different types of organisms
Autotrophs: organisms that can make their own food (producer)

25. Different types of organisms
Heterotrophs: organisms that eat other organisms (consumer)

26. Question!
If organisms could not do cellular respiration, what would happen to them?
They would die from lack of energy (ATP)
If plants couldn’t do photosynthesis, what would happen to consumers?
The food chain would collapse…everything would die.

27. Different types of consumers
Herbivores: eat only plants (primary)

28. Different types of consumers
Carnivores: eat only animals (secondary/tertiary/quarternary)

29. Different types of consumers
Omnivores: eat plants and animals (secondary/tertiary/quarternary)

30. Different types of consumers
Detrivores: eat dead plants and animals

31. Different types of consumers
Decomposers: breaks down dead plants and animals

32. Please complete the Food Web Worksheet Part A
Do now activity
Please complete the Food Web Worksheet Part A