Transcript Ecology: Ecosystems

Ecology:
Ecosystems
Cornell Notes Page 147
• What is
Ecology?
• The study of how
living things interact
with each other and
their environment.
Page 146• Divide page in half vertically. Label left
side “Living Things” and right side “nonliving things.”
• From the next few pictures on the
following slides, make a list of living
and non-living things in each.
Page 146• Divide page in half vertically. Label left side
“Living Things” and right side “non-living
things.”
• From the next few pictures on the following
slides, make a list of living and non-living
things in each.
•NOW label the side, living things,
“Biotic Factors” and non-living
things “Abiotic Factors,” then go
back to page 147 to continue notes.
• What are
Biotic
Factors?
(Page 147)
• Living parts of
an ecosystem.
–Plants, animals,
insects, bacteria,
etc.
• What are
Abiotic
Factors?
• Nonliving parts
of an ecosystem
–Water, sunlight,
air, rocks,
temperature,
etc.
What is an
Organism?
• An individual,
living thing.
•Use energy,
grow,
reproduce,
respond to
environment
What is a
Species?
• A group or “type”
of organisms that
are physically
similar and can
reproduce.
Ex.) humans
• All the members of
What is a
the same species in
Population? an area.
• All the different
What is a
populations
that
Community?
live together in an
area.
What is an • All the living and
nonliving
things
Ecosystem?
that interact in an
area.
What is a
Habitat?
•The place where
a species
population lives
and provides the
things it needs.
–food, water,
shelter
What is a
Niche?
•The role an
organism plays in its
habitat to survive.
•Its job.
–Ex.) Honey bee
pollinating flowers