1. Aim: How do ecologists organize organisms & their environment?
Do Now:
Where do you live? How would you describe your living environment?
List important conditions, necessary for life to exist in a certain area.

2. Ecology
The study of how organisms interact with other living organisms & non-living things that surround them in their environment
Biotic Factors: living things
Examples include geese, frogs, fish
Abiotic Factors: Non-living things
Examples include water, oxygen, sunlight, temperature, minerals

3. Environment Everything that surrounds an organism
Mostly physical surroundings

4. Population
1 species living in one area

5. Community
All populations, more than 1 species, living in an area

6. Ecosystem Part of the environment
Examples include a forest, a pond, a desert
An area where living things interact with the living & non-living things

7. Biome
regions of the world with similar climate (weather, temperature), animals and plants
There are terrestrial biomes (land) and aquatic biomes, both freshwater and marine

8. Land Biomes

9. Aquatic Biomes

10. Biosphere
Part of the Earth, where life exists

11. Levels of Organization

12. Ecological Levels of Organization

13. Brain-Pop Video

14. Groupwork
Think about a desert environment. With a partner, list both living and non-living things that exist there.

15. Individual Work
Answer today’s lesson AIM on a sheet of looseleaf…..this will be your exit slip, before you leave the classroom. (CLASSWORK)

16. Homework
Read textbook pages & answer questions 1, 2 & 3 on page 40
Questions and answers written out