1. Aim: How is ecology the study of the environment?

2. Finding Nemo Describe some of the things you saw in the clip.
How do these things compare?
What do you think the teacher meant when he said the cyanobacteria was a complete ecosystem?

3. Ecology Topics: Population Dynamics Energy Flow Food Webs (Chains)
Material Cycles
Chemicals
Energy Production
Pollution
Organism Adaptations

4. What is the environment?
It is every living & nonliving thing that surrounds an organism.

5. The branch of science that studies the environment
Ecology2
The branch of science that studies the environment

6. What do you see in this fish tank environment?

7. Components of the Environment4
GROUP 1
Biotic Factors – living things
GROUP 2
Abiotic Factors: nonliving things
Soil, water, space,
energy

8. What is ecology?
Study of how biotic and abiotic factors interact in the environment
Air
Fish
Plants
Gravel
Rocks

9. What is the smallest level of ecological organization4?
Organism – an individual living thing

10. All the organisms of a species that live in the same area.
What is a population?
All the organisms of a species that live in the same area.

11. The place where an animal or plant lives.
What is a habitat?
The place where an animal or plant lives.

12. COMMUNITY
ALL Populations that live together in THE SAME AREA

13. What is an ecosystem?
An ecosystem consists of all the living and nonliving things that interact in a specific area.

14. Biome
A complex biotic community characterized by distinctive plant & animal species. Maintained by climatic conditions of the region

15. TROPICAL RAIN FOREST BIOME
Characteristics:
Abundant Rain
Greatest diversity of life
Located near the equator

16. BIOSPHERE
The part of Earth where life exists, including land, water & atmosphere

17. Can you identify each level?
Biosphere
Ecosystem
Community
Population
Largest
Smallest
Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere