environments
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ENVIRONMENTS
What makes up an environment?
What is an environment?
✺ An environment is all of the external conditions that affect the development and reproductions of an organism
✺ An organism is a living thing whether it is a plant, animal, bacteria or virus.
✺ There are external factors that affect the organism which are called environmental factors
Living vs. Nonliving
What makes one identify something as being alive?
Write down what you think identifies living things and then check out these videos to see.
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.colt.alive/
CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING THINGS
BreathingGrowth/DevelopmentReproductionOrganized Complex
StructureTransform and use energyUnique chemical
compositionAdaptability/Response to
stimuli
What are environmental factors?
✺ Abiotic or nonliving factors✺ Water✺ Light✺ Air✺ Chemicals✺ Temperature
Biotic or living factorsInfluence of other organisms
Ecologists
✺ Environmental scientists are people who study and observe organisms in their natural environments to better understand the interaction of the factors that influence the organisms success.
✺ What organisms would you like to observe in their natural habitat?