1. EQ: What is ecology and how can we study it?
Ecology and Ecosystem
EQ: What is ecology and how can we study it?

2. What is Ecology?
Ecology: the study of how living things interact with the environment
Ecology tries to explain why things happen in an environment

4. Why study ecology?
* 5 reasons why biodiversity is important * 6 roles of science in biodiversity

5. Why study Ecology? 5 reasons why biodiversity is important
Economical value
Ecological life support
Cultural value
Recreational value
Scientific value

6. Why study Ecology? 6 roles of science in biodiversity
Address biodiversity decline
Understand complexity of biodiversity
Inform resource use discussions
Social dialogue
Science base
Community involvement

7. Ecosystems
Ecosystem: environment that includes all living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) things and the interactions between them.

8. Biomes
Biomes: large regions of the world that has similar plants, animals, and other organisms that are adapted to the terrain and weather of that region.
They can contain several ecosystems

9. Biomes of the World
Hand-out
Paste into notebook

10. 2 songs about Ecology Mr. Parr- Ecology Song Mr. Parr- Ecosystem Song
Mr. Parr- Ecosystem Song

11. Vocabulary Species Population Community Autotroph Producer Heterotroph
Consumer
Herbivore
Carnivore
Omnivore
Detritivore
Decomposer
Food Chain
Food Web
Trophic Level
Ecological Pyramid
Biomass
Biotic
Abiotic
Niche
Predation
Symbiosis
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism