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EcologyThe scientific study of the relationships
among living organisms and the interaction they have with the
environment
Part 1: Organisms and Their RelationshipsPart 2: Flow of Energy in an EcosystemPart 3: Cycling of Matter
Day 1
Organisms and Their
Relationships
First, let’s review: What is a “Living Thing”?
1. Composed of cells.2. Complex organization patterns 3. Use energy.4. Have stable internal conditions.5. Grow and change.6. Reproduce
Biotic and Abiotic Factors
Biotic• The living factors in
an organism’s environment
Abiotic• The nonliving factors
in an organism’s environment
Biotic or Abiotic?(Make a Venn Diagram with your group)
• Whale • Clock • Water • Fish • Paper • Glass • Aluminum • Wooden Ruler • Sand• Clouds • Corpse • Snail • Steak
• Pork Chops • Salad • Bread • Plant • Hair• Finger Nails • Pipe • Cotton Fabric • Wool • Gold • Plastic • Grapes • Air
Levels of Organization
We have covered very small living things.
Just to review, let’s start with the cell…
Cell Tissues Organs
Organisms Population Biological Community Ecosystem Biome Biosphere
Levels of Organization
• Organism: An individual
• Population: Organisms of a single species that share the same geographic location
• Community: A group of interacting populations (different species) that occupy the same area at the same time.
Levels of Organization
• Ecosystem: A community and all of the abiotic factors that affect it.
• Biome: A large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities.
• Biosphere: All biomes together; the Earth
Community Interactions
• Competition: More than one organism uses a resource at the same time.
• Predation: The act of one organism consuming another organism for food.
• Symbiosis: The close relationship that exists when two or more species live together.
Symbiotic relationships
• Mutualism: When both organisms benefit (ex. Lichen = photosynthetic algae and fungus) Algae provides food (sugar) for the fungusFungus provides algae with water
• Commensalism: One organism benefits, while the other is neither helped nor harmed.
• Parasitism: One organism benefits at the expense of the other.
Ecosystem Interactions
• Habitat: An area where an organism lives
• Niche: The role or position that an organism has in its environment
Day 2
Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem
Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem
• Autotroph: An organism that collects energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to produce food. (Producer)
• Heterotroph: An organism that gets its energy requirements by consuming other organisms. (Consumer)
Different types of Heterotrophs
• Herbivore: Eats only plants– (Deer, rabbits, grasshoppers, etc.)
• Carnivore: Prey on other heterotrophs– (Wolves, lions, cats, etc.)
• Omnivore: Eat both plants and animals– (Bears, humans, mockingbirds, etc.)
• Detritivore: Eat fragments of dead matter– (Worms, organisms
on stream bottoms, fungi)
Models of Energy Flow
• Trophic Levels: Each step in a food chain or food web.– Autotrophs always make up the first trophic
level in ecosystems.– Heterotrophs make up the remaining levels
Models of Energy Flow
• Food chains: A simple model that shows how energy flows through an ecosystem
Models of Energy Flow
• Food webs:
Show flow of energy through many
interconnected food chains
How many connections can we make?
Activity: Deadly Links(In your IntNB, record the following)• Objective: To understand how food
(energy) moves through an ecosystem and to understand the phenomonon called “biological magnification.”
• My assigned role in this food chain is ____________.
Now that you have completed the activity…
Explain in your interactive notebook:
1) What happened to the animals at each level of the food web
2) Summarize your understanding of biological magnification
Warm-up Activities
• Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem question 4 (121)
• do page 123-125
• Do page 129-130
Models of Energy Flow (page 121)
• Ecological pyramids: A diagram that can show the relative amounts of energy, numbers of organisms, or biomass at each trophic level in an ecosystem.– Biomass: The total mass of
living matter at each trophic level
Activity #2 (page 129-130)
• DDT in Real Life
Day 3
Cycling of Matter
Cycling of Matter
• Cycles in the Biosphere– Natural processes cycle matter through the
atmosphere– The exchange of matter through the
biosphere is called the biogeochemical cycle.• Bio: Involves living things• Geo: Geological Processes• Chemical: Chemical Processes
The Water Cycle
Solar Energy Movement of clouds by wind
Precipitation PrecipitationEvaporation
Transpiration from plants
Percolation in soil
• Most precipitation falls into the ocean
• Over land– approximately 90% of the water evaporates– 10% transpires (evaporated) from plants
• Only about 2% of water is retained in a reservoir – i.e., a glacier, ice cap, aquifer or lake
The Water Cycle
Carbon and Oxygen Cycles
CO2 in atmosphere
Photosynthesis
Plants, Algae & Cyanobacteria
Primary Consumer
Higher level Consumers
Detritus
Detritivores(soil microbes &
others)
Cellular Respiration
Burning
Wood & Fossil Fuels
Carbon and Oxygen Cycles
Classified in two groups
• Short term cycles
• Long term cycles
Carbon and Oxygen Cycles
1) Short term cycle– Autotrophs use CO2 for ____________.
– Heterotrophs produce CO2 during ________ __________.
Photosynthesis
CellularRespiration
Carbon and Oxygen Cycles
2) Long term cycle: a) Fossil Fuels
– Organic matter is buried and converted to peat, coal, oil or gas deposits.
– 5.5 billion tons are burned annually
– 3.3 billion tons stay in the atmos-phere, the rest dissolves in sea water*
http://www.ucar.edu/ (The National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Carbon and Oxygen Cycle
b) Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)
– Marine animals use Carbon to build skeleton– They fall to the
bottom of the ocean,creating limestone rock.
Carbon and Oxygen Cycles
c) Atmosphere (atm)• 21% Oxygen (O2) is found in the atm
– very reactive element that combines with other elements and disappear from the atmosphere.
– Some of the O2 is converted into Ozone (O3) in higher atm
– Ozone absorbs damaging UV radiation from the sun.
Carbon and Oxygen Cycles
d) Green house effect
• Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas and traps heat in the atmosphere.
• 30% more CO2 in air today than 150 years ago due to human activity (burning of fossil fuels)
• The atm has not held this much Carbon for at least 420,000 years
http://www.ucar.edu/ (The National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Nitrogen Cycle
Nitrogen in atmosphere
Nitrogen – fixingbacteria in rootnodules oflegumes
Nitrogen – fixing bacteria in soil
Decomposers (aerobic & anaerobic
bacteria and fungi)Ammonification
Ammonium (NH4+) Nitrites (NO2
-)
Nitrifying bacteria
Nitrates (NO3
-)
Denitrifying bacteria
AssimilationPlants
Nitrogen Cycle
Nitrogen is 78% of atmosphereMost is unusable.
– nitrogen gas (N2) is made of 2 strongly bonded atoms. – Lots of energy needed to break these bonds, such as
produced by lightning or fires
Little Nitrogen on land or sea– Bacteria can release nitrogen from organic material– Bacteria can also release nitrogen from organic
material back into the atm
Nitrogen is a key element in proteins and DNA.
Warm-up: What does your DDT graph tell you?
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