5.12A - Lesson 1 - Living and Nonliving Things - LockeD!

​5.12A: How Organisms Interact with Their Ecosystems
Lesson 1

Target: I will observe and describe how a variety of organisms survive by interacting with biotic and abiotic factors in a healthy ecosystem.

Success Criteria: I know I have
it when I can describe how an organism's survival depends on its interaction with a biotic and
abiotic factor in an ecosystem.

Pre-Assessment!

Let’s See What You ALREADY Know!

Multiple Choice

Many animals in an ecosystem depend on other animals for -

• air

• energy

• shelter

• water

Multiple Choice

Many birds, such as hawks, have sharp claws, called talons, on their feet. Sharp talons help a hawk interact with which part of it environment?

• water they drink from streams

• diseases that make them sick

• the animals they catch and eat

• the sunlight that warms them

Multiple Choice

Plants are interacting directly with another living component of their environment when they are -

• soaking up water

• absorbing sunlight

• attracting insects

• taking in carbon dioxide

Multiple Choice

Many plants depend on insects for pollination. Without pollination, these plants cannot produce seeds. Plants depend on insects to -

• produce offspring

• make more food

• grow new leaves

• strengthen roots

Multiple Choice

Forgs in a pond interacts with both living and nonliving components in their ecosystem. Frogs interact with nonliving components when they -

• eat swimming insects for energy

• lay their eggs in bodies of water

• become food for another animal

• hid beneath plants in the pond

Living vs Non-Living Things

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Living vs Non-Living Things

Living vs Nonliving

What is an organism?

An organism is an individual form of life, such as:

• A plant

• An animal

• A bacterium

• A protist

• A fungus

Any living thing is an organism.

Living vs Nonliving

Organisms need a variety of things to survive including food,
water, and shelter. Some of these resources are living, and

some are nonliving.

What do organisms need to survive?

Living vs. Nonliving

• Organisms interact with
nonliving things in order to
survive.

Nonliving Components

• Nonliving components are not alive.

• Some examples
include soil, sunlight,
oxygen, and water.

Open Ended

Give at three examples of nonliving components in the environment in the picture.

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