BIO-GEOSPHERE AND THE

BIOTIC FACTORS
ORGANISMS
MR. KARL PATRICK D. TAGUBERI
Instructor I
 Chemicals are Cycled
Between Organic Matter
And Abiotic Reservoirs

Because chemical cycles in an

ecosystem include both biotic
and abiotic (geologic and
atmospheric) components,
they are called
biogeochemical cycles
 Criteria of Life

1. CHEMICAL 3. CAPACITY TO GROW 4. DEFINITE FORM AND 5. CARRYOUT METABOLIC 6. ABILITY TO REPRODUCE
ORGANIZATION / AND DEVELOP SIZE RANGE PROCESSES
COMPLEX CHEMISTRY 2.
CELLULAR ORGANIZATION

7. TRANSMIT 9. MAINTAIN 10. HAVE DEFINITE

TRAITS/CHARACTERISTICS HOMEOSTASIS LIFESPAN
TO THEIR OFFSPRING 8.
REACT AND ADAPT TO
THEIR ENVIRONMENT
CLASSIFICATION 8 Levels of
Classification-
Dr. King Philip
Came Over For
OF ORGANISMS based on Aristotle
Good Spaghetti
and Linnaeus
Kingdoms of Life
 SPECIES

A group of individuals
with the same gene pool
or genetic characteristics
and is capable of
interbreeding with one
another
 Herbivores– feed on plants
Carnivores –consume animals
Predators-kill and eat their prey
Parasites- sap energy and nutrients from
their living host
Parasitoid– species that requires and eats
only one animal in its life span by living
HETEROTROPHIC parasitically as a larva on a host, but the
SPECIES adult is free-living and may ultimately kill
many host by leaving eggs or larvae on the
host
Grazers and browsers- pluck plant parts
without usually killing the plant and without
being small enough to live in or on the plant
Mutualists- benefit the species with which
they are closely associated.
 PREDATOR
A predator may be defined as any organism that
consumes all or part of another living organism
TRUE PREDATOR PARASITE
GRAZER
A parasitoid wasp, which uses its long ovipositor to insert its
eggs into the larvae of other insects, where they develop by
consuming their host.
 The subtleties of predation

Grazers and parasites often exert their harm not by killing their prey immediately like
true predators
PREDATOR BEHAVIOR

FORAGE SIT AND WAIT

COMMENSALISM

Epiphytes
COMMENSALISM

REMORA
MUTUALISM
MUTUALISM
PARASITISM