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- 1. Living Things & The Environment
- 2. What is an ECOSYSTEM? 1
- 3. All living and nonliving things that interact in an area 1
- 4. What needs are met by an organism’s surroundings? 2
- 5. Food 2 Water Shelter Obtains To Live Grow Reproduce
- 6. What is a HABITAT? 3
- 7. The place where an organism lives and provides things the organism needs 3
- 8. What are BIOTIC factors? 4
- 9. Living Parts of an ecosystem 4
- 10. Name a biotic factor in your environment. 5
- 11. People, Trees, Dogs, Birds, Etc. 5
- 12. What are ABIOTIC factors? 6
- 13. Non-Living parts of an ecosystem 6
- 14. Explain how water and sunlight are two abiotic factors that are important to all organisms. 7
- 15. All organisms need water. Plants need water & sunlight to produce food (PHOTOSYNTHESIS) 7
- 16. How do biotic factors differ from abiotic factors? 8
- 17. Biotic = Living Abiotic = NON-Living 8
- 18. What are SPECIES? 9
- 19. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can reproduce to produce FERTILE offspring. 9
- 20. What is a POPULATION? 10
- 21. All the members of one species in a particular area 10
- 22. What makes up a COMMUNITY? 11
- 23. All the different populations that live together in an area 11
- 24. What are the levels of organization within an ecosystem? 12
- 25. Organism Ecosystem 12 Population Community
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- 27. 13 What is a Niche?
- 28. 13 An organism’s role in an ecosystem and includes how it interacts with all the abiotic and biotic parts of the ecosystem.
- 29. 14 What is Diversity?
- 30. 14 Depends on the variety of species that live within an ecosystem. Some ecosystems are very diverse, while others may only contain a few different species.
- 31. The End Follow this link to explore a forest ecosystem…. Walk in the Forest