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What is Ecology?

What is Ecology?. Organisms and Their Environment. What is Ecology??. The study of interactions that take place between organisms and their environment . It explains how living organisms affect each other and the world they live in. Habitat & Niche.

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What is Ecology?

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  1. What is Ecology? copyright cmassengale

  2. Organisms and Their Environment copyright cmassengale

  3. What is Ecology?? • The study of interactions that take place between organisms and their environment. • It explains how living organisms affect each other and the world they live in. copyright cmassengale

  4. Habitat & Niche • Habitat is the place a plant or animal lives • Niche is an organism’s total way of life copyright cmassengale

  5. The Nonliving Environment • Abiotic factors- the nonliving parts of an organism’s environment. • Examples include air currents, temperature, moisture, light, and soil. • Abiotic factors affect an organism’s life. copyright cmassengale

  6. The Living Environment • Biotic factors- all the living organisms that inhabit an environment. • All organisms depend on others directly or indirectly for food, shelter, reproduction, or protection. copyright cmassengale

  7. Abiotic or Biotic? Biotic copyright cmassengale

  8. Abiotic or Biotic? Abiotic copyright cmassengale

  9. Abiotic or Biotic? Abiotic copyright cmassengale

  10. Abiotic or Biotic? Biotic copyright cmassengale

  11. Levels of Organization copyright cmassengale

  12. What are the Simplest Levels? • Atom • Molecule • Organelle • Cell • Tissue • Organ • System copyright cmassengale

  13. Levels of Organization • Ecologists have organized the interactions an organism takes part in into different levels according to complexity. copyright cmassengale

  14. 1st Level of Organization • Organism:An individual living thing that is made of cells, uses energy, reproduces, responds, grows, and develops copyright cmassengale

  15. 2nd Level of Organization • Population:A group of organisms, all of the same species, which interbreed and live in the same place at the same time. copyright cmassengale

  16. 3rd Level of Organization • Biological Community:All the populations of different species that live in the same place at the same time. copyright cmassengale

  17. 4th Level of Organization • Ecosystem: Populations of plants and animals that interact with each other in a given area with the abiotic components of that area. (terrestrial or aquatic) copyright cmassengale

  18. 5th Level of Organization • Biosphere:The portion of Earth that supports life. copyright cmassengale

  19. The Biosphere • Life is found in air, on land, and in fresh and salt water. • The BIOSPHERE is the portion of Earth that supports living things. copyright cmassengale

  20. What level of organization? Organism copyright cmassengale

  21. What level of Organization? Community copyright cmassengale

  22. What level of Organization? Population copyright cmassengale

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