Everything is Connected Please take out your notebooks and textbooks. Prepare to take notes.

Ecosystems Ecosystem: Biosphere: All the living and nonliving things that interact in an area Biosphere: The part of Earth where life exists

Habitats Questions: (answer on index card) What does an organism get from habitat? Food Water Shelter Why does it need the items listed above? to live to grow to reproduce

Habitat Habitat: Question: (answer on index card) Place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism need Organism get food, water, and shelter in order to live, grow, and reproduce Question: (answer on index card) Can an ecosystem contain more than one habitat? YES!

Biotic Question: (answer on index card) Biotic: A rock is a biotic factor. (true/false) False List 3 biotic factors in your neighborhood. People Dog Trees Biotic: A living part of an ecosystem

Abiotic Question: (answer on index card) Abiotic: What are 3 of the 5 Abiotic Factors? Water Sunlight Oxygen Temperature Soil Abiotic: Nonliving part of an ecosystem

Populations Populations: Question: (Turn and tell your neighbor) All the members of one species in a particular area Question: (Turn and tell your neighbor) What are some of the populations that you are apart of?

Communities Community: Question: All the different populations that live together in an area Question: List the parts of an ecosystem in order from smallest to largest. Organism Population Community and abiotic Ecosystem

Ecology Ecology: The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment

CLASSWORK/HOMEWORK Complete the worksheet. 1. Fold in half 2. Name goes on the back bottom 3. Cut along dashed lines 4. When fully open put examples with pictures on left side and definitions on the right side (use your notes from class) 5. Color in words on front cover