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AIM: What is Ecology
Demonstrate understanding of how organisms react with their environment
Ecology,Ecology,
environment,environment,
interact,interact,
nutrients,nutrients,
predator & Preypredator & Prey
Ecology,Ecology,
environment,environment,
interact,interact,
nutrients,nutrients,
predator & Preypredator & Prey
AIM: What is Ecology?
What does the word environment mean?
DEFINITION
Everything that surround a living thing.
Examine the next 8 slides
What did all the organisms do in these pictures?
Hypothesize whether their actions are positive or negative?
And to whom?
All living things effect their environment
Some positively
some negatively
What happens when it gets cold?What happens when it gets cold?
Why do these guys have thick fur?Why do these guys have thick fur?
Why do these guys have thick fur?Why do these guys have thick fur?
NEEDS of Living Things
AIR
Sunlight (most)
Water
Living Space
Food (nutrients)
Reproduction
QuestionWhat does the word ecology mean?
Answer?Greek eco = earthology = study of
They can breathe underwaterThey can breathe underwater
They can live underwaterThey can live underwater
They can cross waterThey can cross water
They can create They can create new new
environmentsenvironments
They can cool They can cool their their
environmentenvironment
They can They can warm their warm their
environmentenvironment
Question
What does the word “interaction” mean?
Answer?
How things act upon one another
LIST 5-10 things that YOU interact with!
What are the lions interacting with ?What are the lions interacting with ?What are the lions interacting with ?What are the lions interacting with ?
What is the bird interacting with ?What is the bird interacting with ?What is the bird interacting with ?What is the bird interacting with ?
Not all interactions are direct.
Some are indirect.
For example:
What is happening in this picture ?
Assume owls only eat mice ...
And then there is a big …
FIRE
that decimates all the fields for miles and that the mice die …
What happens to the owls ?
The fire indirectly affected the owl!
We know Lions eat Zebra
Lions eat Zebra
If there are too many lions …
what might happen to the zebra?
What would then happen to the lions ?
What is a predator prey relationship?
Identify the predator and the prey in the following pictures
The environment is a cycle:
1. Green plants get energy from where ?
2. Where do green plants absorb nutrients and water?
3. What do vegetarian animals eat?
4. What do other animals eat?
5. What happens when animals get really old or sick?
6. When animals die, what happens to their bodies?
7. They begin to decompose. What happens to their nutrients?
8. The nutrient return to the soil.
9. Who then absorbs the nutrients?
REVIEW VOCABULARY – AND THE AIM – AND THE OBJECTIVES
AIM: What is Ecology
Class Activity:
Worksheets: WS
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AIM: What is Ecology
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AIM: What is Ecology
