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    This document discusses key concepts in ecology including: 1) The five levels of biological organization from individual organisms to the biosphere. 2) The composition of ecosystems, including biotic factors like organisms and abiotic factors like climate. 3) The definition of habitats as areas providing resources for organisms. 4) Niches as the way organisms obtain resources and their role in an ecosystem. 5) The different types of symbiotic relationships between organisms including mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.

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    This document discusses key concepts in ecology including: 1) The five levels of biological organization from individual organisms to the biosphere. 2) The composition of ecosystems, including biotic factors like organisms and abiotic factors like climate. 3) The definition of habitats as areas providing resources for organisms. 4) Niches as the way organisms obtain resources and their role in an ecosystem. 5) The different types of symbiotic relationships between organisms including mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.

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    Relationships, Biomes &

    Population Growth
    Unit 6
    Relationships
    What is Ecology?

    Ecology: Scientific study of interactions


    among organisms and between organisms
    and their environment.
    Abiotic Factors:
    non - Living factors

    Biotic Factors: living factors


    What are the levels of organization?
    To understand relationships within the biosphere, ecologists ask
    questions about events and organisms that range in complexity from a
    single organism to the entire biosphere.
    What are the levels of organization?
    1) Species: Group of similar
    organisms that can breed and
    reproduce fertile offspring.

    One
    Zebra
    What are the levels of organization?
    2) Populations: Group of
    individuals of the same species
    that live in the same area.

    Herd of zebra
    What are the levels of organization?
    3) Communities: Assemblage of
    different populations that live
    together in a defined area.

    Herd of
    animals on
    the Serengeti
    What are the levels of organization?
    4) Biome: Group of ecosystems that have the
    same climate and similar dominate
    communities.

    Rainforest Desert
    What are the levels of organization?

    5) Biosphere: Part of Earth in which


    life exists including land, water, and
    air or atmosphere.
    What are ecosystems composed of?
    • Ecosystems are influenced by biological and physical factors.

    • The biological influences on organisms within an ecosystem are


    called biotic factors.

    • Includes; all biological creatures which an organism may interact


    or, it’s community. Mushrooms, birds, trees, bacteria
    What are ecosystems composed of?
    • Physical, or non-living factors that shape ecosystems are
    called abiotic factors.
    • Includes: the climate like—temperature, precipitation,
    humidity, wind, nutrient type, soil type, sunlight etc.
    What is an ecosystem composed of?

    Mountain,
    clouds, water &
    rocks
    Non-Living ONLY

    Abiotic Factors

    Biotic Factors
    Living ONLY
    Trees, bird, grass,
    rabbit, & moose
    ECOSYSTEM
    Living & Non-Living
    Together
    What is a habitat?
    Habitat: An area where organisms live

    Provides:
    * Food
    * Water
    * Space
    * Shelter
    What is a niche?
    • Is the organisms occupation...Its job...What it does.
    • A niche is the full range of physical and biological
    conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which
    the organism uses those conditions.
    What is symbiosis and what are the different types?

    • Any relationship in which two species live closely


    together is called symbiosis or “living together”
    • Examples: mutualism, commensalism, parasitism
    What is symbiosis and what are the different types?

    Mutualism: Both species benefit. Neither one is


    harmed or helped.
    (Ex.: Bee and flower & Cleaner fish/other fish)
    What is symbiosis and what are the different types?

    Commensalism: One member benefits and the other


    is neither helped nor harmed.
    (Example: bird nest in a tree, barnacle on a whale)
    What is symbiosis and what are the different types?

    Parasitism: One organism lives on or inside another


    organism and harms it.
    • A host is the organism in which a parasite obtains
    its nutritional needs.

    The cuckoo bird


    is a parasite!
    Parasite Example

    Cuckoo Egg!
    The cuckoo lays eggs in
    other species of bird’s
    nests. It hatches first and
    pushes out the other bird’s
    eggs. Then the mother bird
    raises the cuckoo rather
    than her own babies!
    Parasite Example • This is a tapeworm. If
    your dog/cat ingests a
    flea, and the flea has a
    tapeworm egg in it, this
    is born in the animals
    intestinal tract and feeds
    off of the animals food.
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