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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 environment.
The environment that provides the
things the organism needs to live,
grow, and reproduce is called a
habitat.
Examples:
An organism interacts with both the living
and nonliving things in its habitat.
Biotic Factors: Living parts of a
habitat, like grass, plants, lions,
tigers, and bears.
Abiotic Factors: Nonliving parts of
a habitat, like the sunlight, water,
soil, oxygen, and temperature.
Circle BIOTIC in GREEN.
Circle ABIOTIC in ORANGE.
Levels of Organization
Individual Organism
Population
Community
Ecosystem
Biome
Individual/Organism: One single
LIVING thing (One flower, one meer
cat, one opossum)
A species is a group of organisms
that are physically similar and can
mate with each other and produce
offspring that can also mate and
reproduce.
Population: All the members of one
species in a particular area (Lady
Bugs on a leaf, daises in a field,
students in science class)
Community: All ecosystems have
different populations that interact
together. All the different populations
that live together in an area. (Bees,
Daises, and Lady Bugs)
Ecosystem: the community of
organisms that live in a particular
area, along with their nonliving
surroundings
(Prairie, Pond, Dead Log)
Biome: Group of ecosystems with
similar climates and communities
(tundra, desert, grassland, rainforest,
etc.)
What is ECOLOGY?
Ecology is the study of how living
things interact with each other and
with their environment.
Click above to play a BRAINPOP on
ECOSYSTEMS.