Environmental Science: Section 1-1
Everything Is Connected
1. What is one way alligators and other organisms interact?
• fish use holes dug by alligators
2. What is Ecology?
• The study of interactions of living things and their environment.
3. What is the biotic part of the environment?
• All the living things that live together and interact.
4. What is the abiotic part of the environment?
• Nonliving factors such as:– soil– air– water– temperature– sunlight, etc.
Biotic or Abiotic?
5. alligator
6. gar
7. temperature
8. water
9. plants
10. rocks
•Biotic
•Abiotic
Put the five levels of environmental organization in order from smallest to largest
____ 11. population
____ 12. biosphere
____ 13. individual organism
____ 14. ecosystem
____ 15. community
1
2
4
5
3
16. A group of seaside sparrows competing for food, nesting space, and mates in a salt marsh is an example of the __________ level of environmental organization.
population
17. List four species in the salt marsh community.
• gull
• sparrow
• snail
• algae
• egret
• cordgrass
• heron
• jellyfish
• shrimp
• sea croaker
• turtle
18. List three ways that species in the salt marsh community use
cordgrass• eating it for food
– eating algae on it
• building nests
• hiding in it– shelter and protection
19. An ecosystem is made up of a community of organisms and the ____________ parts of the environment, such as temperature, soil, and water.
Abiotic
20. The ocean, the air, and all areas of Earth where life is are all parts of the ________ level of organization.biosphere
The End!!!