2/2 Ecosystem Interactions

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Match the following

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Abiotic

Biotic

Nonliving

Living

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What are the 4 characteristics of a biotic (living) factor?

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What is an ecosystem?

• biotic things and their habitats

• all the biotic and abiotic things that interact with each other in an environment

• only made up of food webs

• organisms and their offspring living in an environment

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Plants

Animals

Fungi (mushrooms)

Bacteria

Water

Sun

Soil

Air

Rocks

Wind

Temperature

Twigs and fallen branches

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Biotic (iving)

Abitoic (nonliving)

Ecosystem: a given area that includes biotic factors that interact with each other, and abiotic factors, to meet their needs to survive.

BIOTIC Factors (living)

• Plants

• Animals

• Fungi (mushrooms)

• Bacteria

ABIOTIC Factors (nonliving)

• Water

• Sun

• Soil

• Air

• Rocks

​Biotic organisms have basic needs they need to meet in order to survive. ​ What are they?


TURN AND TALK

​Biotic organisms have basic needs they need to meet in order to survive. ​ What are they?

Food (nutrients)​
Water​
Shelter (habitat)​
Air​
Sunlight​

​Ecosystem Interactions

​How are they related?
Giraffes and Leaves

​How are they related?
Worms and Dirt

​Why should they interact?

• To survive!

• They need their basic needs met to stay alive

• Examples:

​BIOTIC interacting with BIOTIC

​BIOTIC interacting with ABIOTIC

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Organisms interact with living and nonliving things to ​

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. Plants and animals ​

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on living and nonliving things. For example the interaction between the Sun and a grizzly bear is a ​

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component and a living organism interaction. A grizzly bear consuming salmon is an interaction between two ​

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organisms.

Multiple Choice

A bee pollinates a flower in a garden.

• Living/Living

  Biotic/Biotic

• Living/Non Living

  Biotic/Abiotic

Multiple Choice

An ivy plant grows on the side of a fence.

• Living/Living

  Biotic/Biotic

• Living/Non Living

  Biotic/Abiotic

Multiple Choice

A blue jay drinking water out of a puddle demonstrates an interaction between which of the following?

• Living/Living

  Biotic/Biotic

• Living/Non Living

  Biotic/Abiotic

BIOTIC organisms interact with other BIOTIC organisms in 3 ways.

Helping in groups

• A school of fish swim together

One living organism helping another

• Barnacles living on a whale

Two living organisms helping each other

• Yucca moth pollinates yucca plant

• Yucca moth also lay their eggs in the flower

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an interaction between 2 living organisms?

• Wind blows sediment from one sand dune to another

• Fungus absorbing nutrients from decomposing plants and animals

• Glaciers carving out U-shaped valleys

• Spiny-tailed lizard basking in the sun for warmth

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an interaction between 2 living organisms?

• Lily pad uses energy from the sun for photosynthesis

• Oak tree absorbs carbon dioxide from the air to make its own food

• Glaciers carving out U-shaped valleys

• Bee spreading pollen from one flower to another

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of a living organism interacting with a non-living thing in its ecosystem?

• Turtle burrowing in the sand

• Oxpecker eats ticks off of bigger animals such as zebras

• Glaciers carving out U-shaped valleys

• Heat from the sun causing water to evaporate from the ocean

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of a living organism interacting with a non-living thing in its ecosystem?

• Daffodil’s roots absorbing water from the soil

• Frogs catching and eating mosquitoes

• Bees flying from one flower to another to spread pollen

• Runoff water collecting into the ocean