Principles of Ecology

Principles of Ecology

By Bingxue Wang

The study of the relationships among organisms and their environment.

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Ecology

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What is the study of interactions among living things, and between living things and their surroundings.

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Describe the benefi ts and drawbacks of experiments in a laboratory compared with experiments in a natural setting

Bio: -Life

A: -not​

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Biotic vs. Abiotic factors

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Multiple Choice

Non living factor in an ecosystem (rocks, water, air)

• biotic
• organism
• humus
• abiotic

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Study of interactions between living things and their environment.

• Biology
• chemistry
• paleontology
• ecology

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Choose all the abiotic factors listed

• water

• mates

• space

• temperature

• predators

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Choose all the biotic factors listed

• sunlight

• food

• predators

• disease

• water

Multiple Choice

What abiotic factor would plants compete for?

• Food

• Sunlight

• Parasites

• predators

• Organism: an individual living thing

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• Population: a group of the same species that lives in one area

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• ​Community: a group of different species that live together in one area.

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Levels of organization

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What level of organization describes a flock of pigeons in a park?

• Ecosystem: all of the organisms + nonliving things in a given area.

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• biome: a major regional or global community of organisms characterized by the climate conditions and plant communities that thrive there.

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Levels of organization

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Each color block is a biome

Multiple Choice

A group of gray wolves living in Minnesota is an example of

• a community

• a biome

• an ecosystem

• a population

Multiple Choice

An ecosystem consists of

• the soil, water and weather.

• a community of organisms.

• energy.

• all of the above.

Multiple Choice

A group of organisms of different species living together in a particular place is called a

• biome

• population

• community

• habitat

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Put the following in order from smallest to largest level of organization: community, biome, population, individual, ecosystem.

the assortment, or variety, of living things in an ecosystem.

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Biodiversity

a species that has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem

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keystone species

Keystone species form and maintain a complex web of life.

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One example of a keystone species is the beaver. Beavers cut down trees and build dams on rivers. This changes the ecosystem by turning a river into areas of ponds and marshes. Many different species can live in the pond and marsh environments that are made by beavers.

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What do beavers make that results in a wetland ecosystem?

Open Ended

Who is like a keystone species in TGA?

Multiple Choice

The term biodiversity means:

• a wide variety of plants and animals in an ecosystem
• only a few types of plants and animals in an ecosystem
• an ecosystem composed mostly of plants
• an ecosystem composed mostly of animals