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Living Things and the Environment Notes
An organism obtains food, water, shelter, and other things that it needs to live, grow, and
reproduce from its ____________________________.
The environment that provides the things the organism needs to ___________________________
_______________________________ is called a habitat.
Examples:
An organism interacts with both the living and nonliving things in its habitat.
Biotic Factors: _________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
Abiotic Factors: _________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
Levels of Organization
Individual Organism: _______________________________ (One flower, one meer cat, one
opossum)
A species is a group of organisms that are ___________________________ _________________
_____________________
and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
Population: ____________________________________________________________________
(Lady Bugs on a leaf, daises in a field, students in science class)
Community: All ecosystems have different populations that interact together.
________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________ (Bees, Daises, and Lady Bugs)
Ecosystem: _____________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
(Prairie, Pond, Dead Log)
Biome: _________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________(tundra, desert, grassland, rainforest, etc.)
What is ECOLOGY?
Ecology is _______________________________________________________________________
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BRAINPOP: ECOLOGY