1. Sit in the same number
Warmup.
What are five things you’d expect to see in nature?
What makes a habitat?

2. What is ecology?
The Study of Ecosystems
So what is an ecosystem!

3. Careers
Ecologists,
Doctors
Disease specialists
Forestry
Wildife management

8. Interactions
Parasites

9. Predator Prey

10. Food and energy needs
What do organisms need to survive?
How do organisms get what they need?

11. Food Chains
How do food chains work

12. Nutrient Cycles
How do nutrients move in an ecosystem.
Decomposers
 watson

13. Biomes
Learn about the different biomes in the world.
Deserts, Icy tundra, Ocean

14. Discussion
What are 5 things you would expect to see in nature
What is an ecosystem?

15. Posters
List as many important factors and characteristics of
an ecosystem as you can
Come up with a definition of an ecosystem.
Important Characteristics:
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16. Two Groups
Come up with two groups you can fit everything from
your ecosystem into.

17. Biotic vs Abiotic

18. How can we add biotic and abiotic to our definitions.
You definition should fit with the following official
book definition:
An ecosystem is an area with interacting biotic and
abiotic factors

19. Make a list of biotic factors
Make a list of Abiotic factors
How do they affect each other.

20. What is an ecosystem?
Write four things you notice about this ecosystem

22. Ecosystems-
What are the biotic and abiotic factors?

24. Summary
What is an ecosystem?
What is the difference Between Biotic and Abiotic
Homework
Give a description of the ecosystem at home. Describe
your house, your yard, your neighborhood etc. list 3
biotic and 3 abiotic factors and describe how at least
one biotic and abiotic factor interact
Safety contract

25. Rain forestLayers of living things
Plants
Water
Frogs have distress calls
Ants are a population that depends on each other.
Build a home in the soil
Depend on leaves that grow fungus
How did the snake stay safe?
Where does the giant frog live?
What are its adaptations that allow it to live in the tree?
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