1. Everything is Connected
Please take out your notebooks and textbooks. Prepare to take notes.

2. Ecosystems Ecosystem: Biosphere:
All the living and nonliving things that interact in an area
Biosphere:
The part of Earth where life exists

3. Habitats Questions: (answer on index card)
What does an organism get from habitat?
Food
Water
Shelter
Why does it need the items listed above?
to live
to grow
to reproduce

4. Habitat Habitat: Question: (answer on index card)
Place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism need
Organism get food, water, and shelter in order to live, grow, and reproduce
Question: (answer on index card)
Can an ecosystem contain more than one habitat?
YES!

5. Biotic Question: (answer on index card) Biotic:
A rock is a biotic factor. (true/false)
False
List 3 biotic factors in your neighborhood.
People
Dog
Trees
Biotic:
A living part of an ecosystem

6. Abiotic Question: (answer on index card) Abiotic:
What are 3 of the 5 Abiotic Factors?
Water
Sunlight
Oxygen
Temperature
Soil
Abiotic:
Nonliving part of an ecosystem

7. Populations Populations: Question: (Turn and tell your neighbor)
All the members of one species in a particular area
Question: (Turn and tell your neighbor)
What are some of the populations that you are apart of?

8. Communities Community: Question:
All the different populations that live together in an area
Question:
List the parts of an ecosystem in order from smallest to largest.
Organism
Population
Community and abiotic
Ecosystem

9. Ecology
Ecology:
The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment

10. CLASSWORK/HOMEWORK Complete the worksheet. 1. Fold in half
2. Name goes on the back bottom
3. Cut along dashed lines
4. When fully open put examples with pictures on left side and definitions on the right side (use your notes from class)
5. Color in words on front cover