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AIM: What is Ecology Demonstrate understanding of how organisms react with their environment
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Ecology,environment,interact,nutrients, predator & Prey Ecology, environment, interact, nutrients, predator & Prey AIM: What is Ecology?
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What does the word environment mean? DEFINITION Everything that surround a living thing.
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Examine the next 8 slides What did all the organisms do in these pictures? Hypothesize whether their actions are positive or negative? And to whom?
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All living things effect their environment Some positively some negatively
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What happens when it gets cold?
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Why do these guys have thick fur?
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NEEDS of Living Things AIR Sunlight (most) Water Living Space Food (nutrients) Reproduction
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Question What does the word ecology mean? Answer? Greek eco = earth ology =study of
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They can breathe underwater
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They can live underwater
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They can cross water
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They can create new environments
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They can cool their environment
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They can warm their environment
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Question What does the word “interaction” mean? Answer? How things act upon one another LIST 5-10 things that YOU interact with!
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What are the lions interacting with ? What are the lions interacting with ?
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What is the bird interacting with ? What is the bird interacting with ?
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Not all interactions are direct. Some are indirect. For example:
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What is happening in this picture ?
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Assume owls only eat mice...
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And then there is a big … FIRE that decimates all the fields for miles and that the mice die … What happens to the owls ? The fire indirectly affected the owl!
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We know Lions eat Zebra
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Lions eat Zebra If there are too many lions … what might happen to the zebra? What would then happen to the lions ?
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What is a predator prey relationship? Identify the predator and the prey in the following pictures
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The environment is a cycle: 1. Green plants get energy from where ? 2. Where do green plants absorb nutrients and water? 3. What do vegetarian animals eat? 4. What do other animals eat?
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5. What happens when animals get really old or sick? 6. When animals die, what happens to their bodies? 7. They begin to decompose. What happens to their nutrients? 8. The nutrient return to the soil. 9. Who then absorbs the nutrients?
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REVIEW VOCABULARY – AND THE AIM – AND THE OBJECTIVES AIM: What is Ecology
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Class Activity: Worksheets: WS Questions page 53 AIM: What is Ecology
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Homework: INTERNET QUESTIONS Paragraph AIM: What is Ecology
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