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ECOLOGY: Cornell Notes 6 th grade Life Science
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1. What is Ecology? What does an ecologist study?
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Ecology the study of the interactions between organisms and their environment. Ecologist- a person who studies…
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2. How are biotic and abiotic environmental factors different?
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Abiotic vs. Biotic Abiotic factors are parts of the environment that includes physical features that affect an organism (nonliving…weather, temperature, soil, water, light, buildings, & etc.). Biotic factors are parts of the environment that live and interact with one another (living…animals, plants, bacteria, protists, & etc.)
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3. How does an organism interact with both abiotic and biotic factors?
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Abiotic vs. Biotic water soil/dirt dead plants bird/emu offspring trees/ plants ABIOTIC Climate, temperature, sunlight BIOTIC
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5 Levels of Environmental Organization Groups & Interactions Organism to Biosphere Glencoe, Chapter 24 Holt, Chapter 18
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4.What is an organism? Give an example of an organism …not a zebra.
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Organism – one living thing
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5.What is a population? Give an example of a population of organisms …not zebras.
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Population – group of the same species together in an area
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6. What is a community? Give an example of a community of organisms …not zebras.
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Community – all the biotic factors in an area-groups of species living together
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7. What is an ecosytem? Give an example of an ecosystem for organisms.
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Ecosystem – all the abiotic and biotic factors together in an area- organisms and the habitat
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8. What is the biosphere? Give an example of the biosphere.
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Biosphere – part of Earth where life exists-all the ecosystems together – the Earth-
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ARE ALL PART OF ….
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9. What is a solar system? Give an example of our system.
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Solar System – a group of planets orbiting a star (the sun) POOR, Pluto!!!! Scientific evidence changes as we learn more.
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Milky Way system– a spiral galaxy consisting of 200-400 billion stars
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Universe – All of the galaxies together
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