Your mouldiest guess!

White bread with sugar water•Light•Dark•Cold

White bread with tap water•Light•Dark•Cold

White bread with salt water•Light •Dark•Cold

Rye bread with sugar water•Light•Dark•cold

Rye bread with tap water•Light•Dark•Cold

Rye bread with salt water•Light•Dark•Cold

Name the component:

Habitat and Niche

Ecosystems

Habitat

A habitat is the home or location where an organism lives.

Habitat

In a habitat, an organism must find

-food

-water

-shelter

-space

Habitat Size•Habitats can be very small•A barnacle’s habitat is a tiny place on a rock, shell, boat, or even a whale.

Habitat Size•Habitats can be very large.• Polar bears habitat covers the annual sea ice and they can be found 200 miles offshore.

Niche

•A niche is an organism’s role (job) in the ecosystem•It includes what it eats, where it lives, and what it does.

What is the niche of a beaver?

A beaver’s niche in the ecosystem includes:

cutting down trees building a dam to flood an area and make a pond building a lodge to live in raising a family of beavers chewing bark and wood

Niche

•No two species can occupy the exact same niche, because no two species do the exact same thing.

Niche

•If they do, or try to, one will do it better and the other will have to change or become extinct.

Red-Tailed Hawk & Barred Owl

Red-Tailed Hawk Barred Owl

•Birds of prey

•Live in forests on the edge of fields

•Eat mice and other rodents

•Nest in trees