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Exploring Ecology: Interconnected Living Environments

Delve into the study of nature and how organisms interact with each other and their environment. Learn about habitats, populations, communities, ecosystems, and more through the example of Milkweed Bugs in a swamp habitat. Test your knowledge with a terminology quiz on ecology concepts.

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Exploring Ecology: Interconnected Living Environments

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  1. Ecology... The Study of Nature How living things interact with each other and their environment.

  2. Organism- one complete living thing • Habitat- place where a living thing lives

  3. Other Ecology Terms • Individual- one organism • Species- a group of individuals that can mate with one another • Ex. Red-wing Blackbirds, humans, Silver Maple Trees. • Population- more than one of the same species in a certain area • Ex- 54 grass frogs or 256 walleye or 1023 paramecium • Community- all of the populations of all species in a certain area • Ex- 54 grass frogs and 256 walleye and 1023 paramecium and …

  4. MilkweedBugs Studying organisms can happen in nature or in a lab.

  5. A Milkweed Bug eats milkweed seeds in a swamp habitat.

  6. Other Ecology Terms • Ecosystem- all of the living and non-living things interacting in an area • Biotic- living things • Abiotic- non-living things

  7. Terminology Quiz One living thing? organism or individual Group of individuals that can mate with each other? Species

  8. All the turtles in a pond is it’s? Population Non-living? Abiotic Living? Biotic

  9. All the living things in the pond? Community All the living and all the nonliving things? Ecosystem

  10. Sexing Milkweed Bugs

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