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Learner Expectations
• Content Standard: 4.24 Identifies how matter and energy do or do not cycle in a ecosystem. Describes how matter cycles in a ecosystem (nutrients, producers, consumers and decomposers) but energy must always be added.
• Learning Expectations:• The student will investigate how living things interact
with one another and with non-living elements of their environment.
• Investigate the relationships among organisms in a specific ecosystem.
Vocabulary
• Ch.1 • system• stability• ecosystem• population• community• habitat
• decomposer• energy pyramid• consumer• niche• food web
Vocabulary
• producer• energy pyramid• climate• diversity
• climate• diversity• intertidal zone• near-shore zone• open-ocean zone
In this activity you will:
• Learn how living things interact with one another and with non-living elements of their environment.
• Write a paragraph using three facts you learned from this presentation.
What is a Population?• A population is one species living in
a specific area.
• For example, all foxes living in an area form a population.
• Another example, all dandelions growing in an area form another population.
What is a Community?• A community is formed from all living
populations found in an area.
• All the foxes, dandelions, grasshoppers, snakes, hawks, deer, and skunks living in one area each form their individual populations, but together make up a community.
What is a Ecosystem?
• An ecosystem is formed by the interactions between all living and non-living things
• How do living and non-living things interact in an environment?
What is Ecology?
• Ecology is how living and non-living things affect each other in their environment.
• We have already named several living things found in a community. Can you name non-living things in your community?
Non-living parts of your community
• Buildings
• Roads
• Bodies of water
• Automobiles
• Traffic lights
How non-living and living things affect each other
• Building more homes drives many animals out of their natural habitats or communities.
• Littering can destroy an animals habitat.
• Air pollution from automobiles and factories will affect the quality of life for all living things in a community, including people.