Food, water, shelter Things to live, grow, and reproduce
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Environment where organism lives With your Pair Share partner,
describe the habitat of a prairie dog or sunfish, you choose!
Include three things that allow the organism to live, grow, or
reproduce
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Biotic and Abiotic
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Organism, population, community, ecosystem
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Fill in the parts of the ecosystem:
OrganismPopulationCommunityEcosystem Honey beeForest
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Name the biotic factors in the ecosystem.
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Name the abiotic factors in the ecosystem.
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Living Things and the Environment worksheet due at the end of
the hour!
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Limiting factor Carrying capacity
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Organisms leave or die, populations smaller Organisms join or
are born, populations larger
Adaptations = traits that an organism had to eat, grow, or
reproduce Some are better than others!
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BEHAVIORS Migrate v. stay in environment Strong sense of smell
v weak sense of smell PHYSICAL TRAITS Long tongue v short tongue
Bright wings v dull wings Wide span wings v short wings
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Natural process The strongest adaptations will allow for
survival The weaker adaptations will result in death!
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Which butterfly will naturally be more likely to survive and
reproduce? Why?
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Natural selection assumes that the weaker traits or behaviors
will cause a part of a species to die out!
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Competition struggle for limited resources Niche animals
job