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ENVIRONMENTS What makes up an environment?

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Page 1: Environments

ENVIRONMENTS

What makes up an environment?

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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

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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/

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CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING THINGS

BreathingGrowth/DevelopmentReproductionOrganized Complex

StructureTransform and use energyUnique chemical

compositionAdaptability/Response to

stimuli

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What are environmental factors?

✺ Abiotic or nonliving factors✺ Water✺ Light✺ Air✺ Chemicals✺ Temperature

Biotic or living factorsInfluence of other organisms

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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?