1. Diversity of life form
Ecological niche

2. Ecological Niche The niche of a species consists of:
Its role in the ecosystem; all interactions with living and non-living elements of its environment
Is described in terms of an animal’s diet, its sleeping patterns, its habitat, etc.

3. Competition
In all environments, organisms with similar needs may compete with each other for resources, including food, space, water, air, and shelter. 

4. Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
Its all about what you eat!

5. Food chain:
Food chain: involves the transfer of energy from green plants through a series of organisms with repeated stages of eating and being eaten.

6. The three categories of the food chain are…..
Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
They are all dependent on each other.

7. Producers Producers get their food and energy from the sun. (PLANTS)
They make their food through a process called photosynthesis.

8. Consumers
Consumers need to eat their food to get energy. (ANIMALS)

9. Types of consumers are There are THREE types of Consumers
Carnivores
Herbivores
Omnivores.
Its still all about what you eat!

10. Carnivores only eat meat (other animals)

11. Types of Carnivores
predators: animals which kill and consume their prey
scavengers: those animals that feed on other animals that they have not killed

12. Herbivores eat only plants.

14. Omnivores eat both meat (animals) and plants.

16. Decomposers
Decomposers eat dead things and turn them back into dirt, or soil. YUK!
Examples:
Mushrooms
Worms
Bugs
What would the world look like without decomposers (bacteria and fungi?

18. How they relate .

19. To Do:
Read/ complete questions pg 95-98