Name:RODRIGUEZ , PAUL JASTINE J.

Score: ______________
Time: SATURDAY (5:00 TO 8:00 PM) Date: FEBUARY 04, 2023

ACTIVITY # 3
ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
A. Ecologists study environments at different levels of the organization.
Write a description of each level of organization in the table. Also, provide an example
for each level.

LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE

ORGANIZATION

A living item is considered an Archaea (archaebacteria),

1. Organism organism if it has an organized Bacteria (eubacteria)
structure, can respond to Eucarya (eukaryotes)
stimuli, reproduces, grows, Protists
adapts, and maintains
Fungi
homeostasis. So, every living
thing on Earth that is an
animal, plant, fungus, protist,
bacterium, or archaeon
qualifies as an organism. There
are many different methods to
classify these species.
Depending on how many cells
there are in it is one method.

A population is the total AFRICAN ELEPHANTS

2. Population number of organisms POND POPULATION
belonging to the same species SALMON
that coexist in each region at
the same time and have the
potential to interbreed. For
interbreeding to take place,
individuals must be able to
mate with any other population
member and produce fertile
offspring. Populations can
occur on a variety of scales,
but they always contain genetic
variation within them, and not
every person has the same
capacity for survival and
 reproduction. The fish in a
single pond are an example of
a local population that can be
restricted to a tiny spatial
region. But this locale can
function on a local, national,
island, or continental scale; it
might even represent the entire
species.

In biology, a community is a
3. Community group of interacting species
from different species that
share a shared habitat. A
biological community would
include, for instance, a forest of
trees and undergrowth plants,
inhabited by animals, and
rooted in soil containing
bacteria and fungi. Several
factors determine the general
structure of a community,
including the variety and
abundance of species present,
interactions between species,
and the capacity of the
community to recover from
disruptive forces like fire or
droug. Succession, or
ecological succession, refers
to the evolution of biological
groups across time.

4. Ecosystem

5. Biosphere

B. An ecosystem includes both abiotic and biotic factors. Producers provide energy for
other organisms in an ecosystem.
 Complete the following sentences with the correct term from the list below

autotrophs nonliving abiotic living temperature biotic organism

eating producers moisture plants animals consumers hydrosphere
atmosphere heterotrophs lithosphere species biosphere

1. All ecosystems are made up of and components.

2. ________________ factors are living things, such as ____________ or ___________.

3. ________________ factors are nonliving things, such as wind, ___________ or __________.
4. ________________ are organisms that get their energy from _____________ resources,
meaning they make their own food. These organisms are also called _________________.
5. _________________ are organisms that get their energy by ____________ other organisms.
These organisms are also called __________________.
.
6. Why are producers so important to an ecosystem?

7. ____________________ layer of the earth where soil is found.

8. All ecosystems when combined make up the Earth’s ______________ or “sphere of life”.

9. The __________________ is the layer of air which is further divided into different sublayers.

10. A _______________ is made up of the same kind of organisms.

C. If you could find your ideal ecosystem, but it was on another planet, would you
leave Earth to go live there instead?
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