1. Sustainability and Biodiversity

2. Ecosystems are interactions between plants, animals, and microorganisms and their environment working together.

3. What is Sustainability?
“In ecology (How organisms interact) word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time”

4. Our Definition
Sustainability is being able to keep an ecosystem “healthy” or “balanced” for a long period of time.

5. What does “healthy” and “balanced” mean?
In your notebook
Give an examples of what you think “healthy ecosystem” and “balanced ecosystem” means
Think about Biotic and Abiotic factors

6. Is Healthy and Balanced important
Ecosystems will fail if they do not remain in balance.
No community can carry more organisms than its food, water, and shelter can accommodate.

7. Each organism has its own niche, or role, to play

9. Do you think that these 3 birds will compete with each other for food and space?