Ecology

Review Test

Outside observations Terms Organization of living things Experiments with ecology Homework

Note: you will be writing and answering questions on paper during this powerpoint. That paper will be turned in at the end of class.

Lesson Outline

With your table partner, make a list of 20

different things you see in the classroom and/or outside

From your list, circle the items that are (or have been) living

Which organisms on your list provide energy or nutrients to the others? (Explain)

If all the plants you listed died, what do you expect would happen to the other living things on the list?

Outside Observations

Biotic Abiotic Ecology: the scientific study of interactions

among and between organisms and their environment

Terms

Biotic or Abiotic?

1. List three biotic things.2. List three abiotic things.

Term: species – a group of closely related individuals that can reproduce with one another to produce offspring3. Describe a population.4. Does a community have biotic or abiotic things in

it?5. Does an ecosystem have biotic or abiotic things in it?8. Describe an ecosystem.

There are three fundamental approaches to

ecology Observing Experimenting Modeling

9. What is the difference between an experiment and a model?

10.What is the difference between a biome and an ecosystem?

Methods in Ecology

Read section 3-1 Complete handout Turn in your questions from today

Homework