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1. What is a population?
2. What do we use population for?
3. What do you think is a community?

Chapter 21
Populations
and Communities

I. Living Things and the

Environment
A. Habitats
1. The smallest unit in an ecosystem
is an organism.
2. A habitat is a place where an organism
lives and provides the things an
organism needs to live.
(food, water, shelter)

Why do different organisms

live in different habitats?

Each kind of organism has specific

needs. Different habitats provide
different things.

B. Biotic Factors
1. The living parts of a habitat are
called
biotic factors.

What are the biotic factors in

this environment?

trees, bushes, fish, dragon flies, turtle,

monkey

C. Abiotic Factors
1. The nonliving parts of a habitat are
called abiotic factors.
a. Examples:
* Water
* Sunlight
* Oxygen (air)
* Temperature
* Soil

How do abiotic factors differ

from biotic factors?

Biotic factors are living;

abiotic factors are nonliving.

D. Levels of Organization
1. Populations
a. members of one single kind of
organism make up a

species
* physically similar
* can mate and reproduce

b. All of the members of one species

living
together in a particular area form a

population

2. Communities
a. All of the different populations living
together in an area form a

community

3. Ecosystems
a. All of the communities and abiotic factors
in an area form an

ecosystem

ecosystem

community

population

Species

b. The study of how living things

interact is called ecology .

Assignment
Finish 5 sentence summary on back of
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