1. Intro to Ecology

2. Mike

3. Ecology: All things are connected!
Ecology is the study of interactions between living things (biotic factors) and their environment (abiotic factors).

4. Producer Obtain energy from the sun. Can produce their own food.
Autotroph

5. Consumer Herbivore-obtain energy by eating plants.
Carnivore-obtain energy by eating meat.
Omnivore- obtain energy by eating plants and animals.
Detritivore- obtain energy by feeding on plant and animal remains
Heterotroph

6. Feeding Relationships
Energy flows through an ecosystem in one direction, from the sun or inorganic compounds to autotrophs (producers) and then to various heterotrophs (consumers).

7. Food Chain Organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.
Each step in food chain or web makes up a trophic level.

8. Ten Percent Rule

9. Symbiosis: “Living together”

10. Parasitism
Species 1
Species 2

11. Predator/Prey Relationship
Species 1
Species 2

12. Herbivory
Species 1
Species 2

13. Competition
Species 1
Species 2

14. Mutualism
Species 1
Species 2

15. Commensalism
Species 1
Species 2

16. Only drinks from one kind of flower
Specialists
Only drinks from one kind of flower
Only eats prairie dogs
Only eats termites
Only eats bamboo

17. Eats seriously anything
Generalists
Eats anything
Eats anything
Eats seriously anything