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Ecosystems

This journal provides information on different biomes and water-based ecosystems, their characteristics, and the organisms that inhabit them. Includes vocabulary, worksheets, videos, and illustrations.

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Ecosystems

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  1. Ecosystems

  2. Setting Up Your Journal • Title page • ‘Ecosystems’ should be written on the page and you should include illustrations.

  3. Table of Contents • Page 4 – Essential Questions • Pages 5-8 - Vocabulary • Essential Questions • In what ways are environmental systems connected? • How do changing environmental systems affect organisms, including people? • How does the location on Earth impact the characteristics of an ecosystem?

  4. Vocabulary • You need to have 4 pages for this section. • Write the word ‘vocabulary’ on the top of each page. • Your first 2 vocabulary words will be: • 1. Ecosystem • 2. Biome

  5. Ecosystem: all the populations of living and non living things in an environment and the interaction among them • Biome: a large scale ecosystem • Biomes Worksheet • Read and highlight information • Glue into journal on page 10 • Add to Table of Contents

  6. Brain Pop video • Land Biomes videos • Rainforest video • All about the rainforest • Jot down notes while watching the video

  7. Deciduous (Temperate) Forest • Average temperatures and average amount of rainfall • Exists on every continent, except Antarctica and Africa • Trees shed their leaves each year • Multiple seasons occur due to the amount of sunlight • Several layers of plants can be found here • Tall trees (which create a canopy) let light reach the bottom where bushes and smaller trees grow (unlike in the rainforest) • These plants provide a variety of habitats for animal life

  8. Taiga Biome • Watch the video and listen for key elements • Jot down notes • Tundra Biome • Watch the video and listen for key elements • Jot down notes

  9. Grasslands/Savanna Biome video • Grasslands, Savanna, Prairie • also known as Savanna(Africa) or Prairies(North America) • mainly have grasses growing and few trees • little rain • long slender leaves allow little water loss in plants • Write down other info you found important from the video

  10. Desert Biome video • Deserts • soil and air are dry • little rain • sun shines most of the time • temperature hot in day (summer) and can be 
freezing at night (winter) • few plants: cactus and bushes • snakes, lizards, few mammals like rabbits • Write down other info you found important from the video

  11. Mr. Parr's Biome song • Terrestrial = land • Aquatic = water • Aquatic Ecosystems • Learn about the difference between a freshwater ecosystem and a saltwater ecosystem

  12. Water Biomes • Water-based regions home to a unique group of living things.

  13. Vocabulary • Organism: an individual plant, animal, or single-celled life form • Individual: a single organism in an environment • Population: individuals of the same kind living in the same environment • Community: all the populations of organisms living together

  14. Wetland • Also known as swamp, marsh, or bog • Land covered with shallow water for all or part of the year • Water comes from rain, melted snow, underground spring • Marsh-grassy with reeds and cattails near river or lake • Bog- found in cool climate, spongy peat moss • Swamp- forested wetland full of trees and shrubs • Everglades Brainpop video • Bill Nye the Science Guy – Wetlands

  15. River • A ribbon of water that weaves over land • Constantly moving and changing • Can carve canyons and form waterfalls • Water comes from melted snow, springs, rainwater, underground • Water flows downhill • Underwater plants anchor in the river bottom • Water level drops and rises depending on rain fall. • Rivers Brainpop video

  16. Vocabulary • Habitat: a place in an ecosystem where a population lives • Niche: the role each population has in a habitat

  17. Lake • A pool of freshwater that fills low spots in land • Form from mountain snow, natural springs, along rivers, or behind dams • Trees line the sides of the lake • Water lilies grow on top of the water • Tall grasses are on the water edge

  18. Estuary • Where a river meets the ocean • Part wet part dry • Forms brackish water (fresh water and salty water mixed) • Found on edges of continents and islands • Experience high and low tides • Mud is full of nutrients

  19. Ocean • Covers 75% of earths surface • Very salty • Largest water biome • Waves move water and has high and low tide • Sea weed and algae grow • Deep water gets no light so few producers and cold temperatures

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