1. EQ What is an ecosystem? Sit in the same number Warmup.
What are five things you’d expect to see in nature?
What makes a habitat?

2. What is ecology?
The Study of Ecosystems
So what is an ecosystem!

3. Careers Ecologists, Doctors Disease specialists Forestry
Wildife management

4. Protecting Environment

5. Clean Water

6. Keeping Nature Alive

7. What do we learn?

8. Interactions
Parasites

9. Predator Prey

10. Food and energy needs What do organisms need to survive?
How do organisms get what they need?

11. Food Chains
How do food chains work

12. Nutrient Cycles How do nutrients move in an ecosystem. Decomposers
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13. Biomes Learn about the different biomes in the world.
Deserts, Icy tundra, Ocean

14. Discussion What are 5 things you would expect to see in nature
What is an ecosystem?

15. Posters
List as many important factors and characteristics of an ecosystem as you can
Come up with a definition of an ecosystem.
Important Characteristics: .

16. Two Groups
Come up with two groups you can fit everything from your ecosystem into.

17. Biotic vs Abiotic

18. How can we add biotic and abiotic to our definitions.
You definition should fit with the following official book definition:
An ecosystem is an area with interacting biotic and abiotic factors

19. Make a list of biotic factors
Make a list of Abiotic factors
How do they affect each other.

20. What is an ecosystem?
Write four things you notice about this ecosystem

22. Ecosystems-
What are the biotic and abiotic factors?

24. Summary What is an ecosystem?
What is the difference Between Biotic and Abiotic
Homework
Give a description of the ecosystem at home. Describe your house, your yard, your neighborhood etc. list 3 biotic and 3 abiotic factors and describe how at least one biotic and abiotic factor interact
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25. Rain forest Layers of living things Plants Water
Frogs have distress calls
Ants are a population that depends on each other.
Build a home in the soil
Depend on leaves that grow fungus
How did the snake stay safe?
Where does the giant frog live?
What are its adaptations that allow it to live in the tree?