Life Science Unit

1. Life Science Unit

2. Biomes A biome is a community of animals and plants spreading over an extensive area, sometimes thousands of miles in length or width, with relatively uniform climatic conditions. DE

3. Ecosystem All of the Living and Non-living things in an area

4. Abiotic Factor All the Non-Living things in an area

5. Biotic Factors All the living things in an area. Click here

6. Plants Trees Grass

7. Photosynthesis View: View 2

8. Energy Carbon Dioxide Water

9. Bill Nye on Plants!

10. Producers: Video Produce their own food..via Photosynthesis

11. Consumers Eats other things to get ENERGY

12. Decomposers Video

13. The Futures Channel: Wildlife Refuge

14. Herbivore Eats only Plants

15. Carnivore Video Eats Meat to get energy

16. Omnivores Eats both Plants and Meat For Energy

17. Share Skull activity • Hand out skull pictures and determine which are Herbivore, Carnivore or omnivore.

18. Animal Skulls page. • http://www.chichesterinc.com/AnimalSkulls.htm

20. Primary Consumer Are the first level consumers, they only eat plants

21. Secondary Consumer Are the second level consumers, they eat primary consumers

22. Tertiary Consumer Are the top of the food chain.

23. Energy Pyramid Tertiary Consumer Top of the Food Chain Secondary Consumer Animals that eat primary level Primary Consumer Animals eat only Plants Producers Plants Change suns energy Sun’s energy sent to earth

24. Symbiotic Relationship Video Working together to survive All video links

25. Video tick Parasitic Relationship Bedbug Mos. vid Leech vid Click Mos.

26. Both parties get something from each other. Mutualism Otter Video

27. Communialism One gets a place to live, it doesn’t affect the other

28. Now Back to…. Decomposers Bacteria Bacteria scavenger hunt

29. Predators Prey Video Scavengers Video video Video 2

30. Animal Adaption/ Defenses Lab

31. Catch Me If you Can Activity: Aims Sci.

32. Decomposer Poster activity

33. Food Chain

34. Food Web Videos Krill Tiger Sea Eagles

35. Is there enough room?

36. Controlling Populations An ecosystem can only handle a certain number of organisms. This is its ______________________. Carrying Capacity

37. There are certain factors that help to control organisms. These are ____________________. Limiting Factors Lab Link Oh Deer Bears in the woods Musk Ox

38. Invasive species research.

39. CHANGES IN AN ECOSYSTEM CAUSED BY ANIMALS - INCLUDING HUMANS

40. This presentation will ask you to THINK – DISCUSS – WRITE But first, here is some background information……

41. EVERYTHING CHANGES… • Things done by animals cause changes within an ecosystem • These changes can be BENEFICIAL, DETRIMENTAL, or NEUTRAL to other parts of the ecosystem Discuss at your table what you think these three words might mean

42. BENEFICIAL CHANGES • These changes mean GOOD THINGS for some part of the ecosystem • A change in an ecosystem is BENEFICIAL for some parts of the ecosystem

43. DETRIMENTAL CHANGES • These changes mean BAD THINGS for some part of the ecosystem • Some changes are DETRIMENTAL for some parts of the ecosystem

44. These changes mean NEITHER good things nor bad things for some part of the ecosystem Some changes are NEUTRAL for some parts of the ecosystem – these changes have NO EFFCT on certain parts of an ecosystem NEUTRAL CHANGES

45. Let’s look at some examples… Can you name this animal?

46. This animal is a BEAVER DISCUSS AT YOUR TABLE – What are some things you know about the beaver?

47. BEAVERS BUILD DAMS Beavers live in rivers or streams. They build dams which stop the flow of the water.

48. THINK & DISCUSS How did the beaver building a dam change the ecosystem? How are these changes BENEFICIAL? DETRIMENTAL? NEUTRAL? After discussion, we will complete our note sheet together.

49. Here’s another example…. Can you name this animal?

50. This animal is an EARTHWORM DISCUSS AT YOUR TABLE – What are some things you know about the earthworm?