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NAME: ________________________________________
Environmental Science: Six Kingdoms and Tropic Levels
Pd: _________
Objectives:
• List the 6 Kingdoms
• Describe each kingdom:
• Describe each level of the Energy Pyramid
6 Kingdoms
 Eubacteria
 Archaebacteria
 Fungi
 Plants
 Animals
 Protists
Eubacteria
 Simple-single cell Organisms
 Help to maintain cycles of matter in the environment.
 Most bacteria are in this Kingdom
 In the soil, on plants and animals (inside and out), in the air, EVERYWHERE!
 Many are helpful to people:
 E. coli (live in our intestines)
 B. regularis (used in making yogurt)
 Some are Harmful to people:
 Streptococci (causes “strep throat”)
Archaebacteria
 Live in extreme places
 Hot springs (boiling water!)
 Low / No oxygen areas
 High Acidity
 Simple Single celled organism
Fungi
 Multicelled complex organism
 Examples:
 Mold
 Mildew
 Mushrooms
 Break down dead organisms
 Often look like plants
 Unlike plants they CANNOT make their own food (no photosynthesis)
 Obtain food from breaking down (decaying) Soil, plants, animals. (decomposer)
Plants
 Multicelled organisms that produce their own food (producers)
 Over 250,00 thousand species
ranging from:
 Flowering Plants
 Tiny Mosses
 Giant Trees
 Life could not exist without plants!
 Provide Oxygen
 Provide Food (transfers energy from sun to herbivores)
Animals
 Largest Kingdom
 Over 1 million known species!
 Multi-celled organisms found in very diverse (different) locations
 Keep populations in check and allow for complex organisms.
 Depend on plants and other animals for survival (can’t make their own food)
 Primary consumer (herbivores)
 Secondary & Top consumers (carnivores, omnivores)
 Scavengers
Protists
 “Odds and Ends” Kingdom
 Organisms can be VERY different from each other.
 Single cell and multi-celled organism
 Protozoan (single celled)
 Algae (multi-celled and single-celled)
 Most are single celled organism
 Not in the bacteria kingdoms because they are complex cells!