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What makes a polar bear fit for its environment?

Turn in: Living vs. Non Living HMWK

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What is Ecology??• The study of interactions that

take place between organisms and their environment.

• It explains how living organisms affect each other and the world they live in.

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Habitat & Niche• Habitat is the place a plant or animal lives

• Niche is an organism’s total way of life

Fundamental vs. Realized Niche

What does abiotic mean?

What does the prefix ‘a’ mean?

What does ‘bio’ mean?

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The Nonliving Environment• Abiotic factors- the

nonliving parts of an organism’s environment.

• Examples include air currents, temperature, moisture, light, and soil.

• Abiotic factors affect an organism’s life.

So then what would ‘biotic’ mean?

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The Living Environment• Biotic factors- all the

living organisms that inhabit an environment.

• All organisms depend on others directly or indirectly for food, shelter, reproduction, or protection.

Checkpoint

• Predict what types of things scientists would study if they were analyzing biotic factors in an ecosystem. Be specific (do not just say living things)

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Abiotic or Biotic?

Biotic

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Abiotic or Biotic?

Abiotic

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Abiotic or Biotic?

Abiotic

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Abiotic or Biotic?

Biotic

Circle of Life

From the video, write down all biotic interactions you saw and any abiotic/biotic interactions you saw.

Checkpoint

• Predict what types of things scientists would study if they were analyzing biotic factors in an ecosystem. Be specific (do not just say living things)

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Levels of Organization- Biological

• Atom• Molecule• Organelle• Cell• Tissue• Organ• System

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Levels of Organization- Ecological• Ecologists have organized the

interactions an organism takes part in into different levels according to complexity.

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1st Level of Organization• Organism:

An individual living thing

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2nd Level of Organization• Population:

A group of organisms, all of the same species, which can interbreed and live in the same place at the same time.

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3rd Level of Organization• Community:

All the populations of different species that live in the same place at the same time.

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4th Level of Organization• Ecosystem:

Populations of plants and animals that interact with each other in a given area with the abiotic components of that area. (terrestrial or aquatic)

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5th Level of Organization• Biosphere:The portion of Earth that supports life.

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The Biosphere

• Life is found in air, on land, and in fresh and salt water.

• The BIOSPHERE is the portion of Earth that supports living things.

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What level of organization?

Organism

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What level of Organization?

Community

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What level of Organization?

Population

Biogeography - study of where organisms live

Continental drift - slow motion of continents

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Climate and biomes• The typical weather patterns over

a long period of time is the climate.

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Biomes are a group of ecosystems with similar climates (temperature and rainfall) and organisms.

Biome Brochures

• You are going to make a travel brochure for a biome. In your brochure include:– Summary of the climate in your biome– Map where your biome is found– Main abiotic factors that affect life (w/ pictures)– Main biotic factors (flora and fauna) (w/ pictures)– Two specific biotic interactions– At least 1 graph that summarizes your biome– An example of a habitat and niche for an organism in

your biome