Ecological niches

What is Ecological Niche?

• a rock

• a fish

• the role of a species within an ecosystem

• all the individuals of the same species that live at the same place and time

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Marine organism may have....

• specialized niche

• generalized niche

• differences

• environment change

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

what is a specialized ecological niche?

• a community of fish

• shoaling

• If an organism can survive only within very narrow physical, biological or chemical parameters, it is considered to have a very specialized niche.

• a shark

What is generalized ecological niche?

• A group of species

• apply to species which can exist in a broad range of conditions.

• The Flash

• the natural environment where organisms live.