1. Warm-up Notes Activity: Carrying capacity Vocab Game Exit Ticket
Agenda:
Warm-up
Notes
Activity: Carrying capacity
Vocab Game
Exit Ticket

2. Test next Thursday 3/9!
3/9!

3. Warm Up
What is a heterotroph?
List 3 examples.

4. Vocabulary Memory Game
Match word with definitions
THEN, match word with picture
AFTER, match word, definition, and picture together
If you make a match you get to go again.

5. Essential Question:   Describe the impact a limiting factor can have on an ecosystem.

6. Population
Review: What is a population?
Give two examples…

7. Population Review: What is a population? Give two examples…
A population is a group of living organisms.

8. Any factor (biotic or abiotic) that limits population size
Limiting Factors
Any factor (biotic or abiotic) that limits population size
Examples:
Water
Food
Shelter/Habitat
Predators

9. Carrying Capacity
The number of one species an environment can support over a long time.
Dependent on limiting factors

10. OH DEAR!!!
Count off by fours (one’s are the deer, everyone else is a resource)
Food (stomach), Water (mouth), Shelter (v-shape)
Face away from each other. Everyone pick a sign, and turn around.
Deer must find the same resource they are displaying and take it back to their side.

12. Observations Terrarium Observations (in ecosystem inquiry packet).
Write out numbers for temperature and organism observations
Complete Part 5: Analyzing Population Data in your Ecosystem Inquiry Packet
Graph grass, beans, crickets, and worms
Answer part 5 questions
Make sure to answer Part 2 questions B and C

13. Write an analysis paragraph. Include answers to the following question
Inquiry Packet: Part 8
Write an analysis paragraph.
Include answers to the following question
Complete sentences only!

14. **Complete sentences only**
Analysis Questions
**Complete sentences only**
Describe the food web in your ecosystem?
What happened (observations) in your ecosystem?
Limiting Factors?
Did your ecosystem reach carrying capacity?
What could you have down to improve your ecosystem?

15. **Test next Thursday 3/9!**
Exit Ticket
Any abiotic or biotic factor that controls the number of individuals in a population is:
A bioaccumulation factor
An ecosystem
A limiting Factor
A producer
**Test next Thursday 3/9!**