1. Title of notes: Ecology

2. I can define abiotic and biotic factors in an ecosystem.
Learning target
I can define abiotic and biotic factors in an ecosystem.
Today I am…
learning how abiotic/biotic factors affect an ecosystem’s organisms.
So that I’ll be able to…
understand that living and non-living factors affect one another.
I’ll know I’ve got it when…
I can complete a t-chart comparing abiotic and biotic factors outside and create a definition of each.

3. Any part of an ecosystem that has never been living.
Abiotic factors
Any part of an ecosystem that has never been living.

4. Any part of an ecosystem that is or used to be living.QW
Biotic factors
Any part of an ecosystem that is or used to be living.

5. Ecology
The study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment.

6. Levels of Ecological organization

7. Ecosystem
All living things and their physical environment within a particular area.

8. The specific environment in which an organism lives.
Habitat
The specific environment in which an organism lives.
Ex. The golden toad lives in a cloud forest (high elevation).

9. Abiotic/Biotic foldable
Left hand side of your ecology notes