STANDARD S7L4

INTERDEPENDENCE OF LIFE

ECOLOGY
Students will examine the
dependence of organisms on one
another and their environments.
ECOLOGY
The study of how living things
interact with each other and their
environment
 POPULATIONS
&
COMMUNITIES
Categorize relationships
between organisms that are
competitive or mutually
beneficial.
 ECOSYSTEM
ORGANIZATION
PYRAMID
 INDIVIDUAL

ONE ORGANISM,

A SINGLE LIVING THING

 POPULATION

A GROUP OF
INTERBREEDING
ORGANISMS (SPECIES)
LIVING IN THE SAME AREA
 COMMUNITY

ALL TYPE OF
ORGANISMS LIVING IN
THE SAME AREA;
POPULATIONS THAT
LIVE TOGETHER
 ECOSYSTEM

ALL THE ORGANISMS LIVING

IN THE SAME AREA
(COMMUNITY) AND THEIR
NONLIVING ENVIRONMENT
 BIOME

ONE OF SEVERAL MAJOR

TYPES OF ECOSYSTEMS
(LIKE A RAINFOREST,
DESERT OR FOREST)
 BIOSPHERE

THE ECOSYSTEM OF
PLANET EARTH;
THE PART OF EARTH
THAT CONTAINS ALL
ECOSYSTEMS
" There are good things to see in
tidepools and there are exciting and
interesting thoughts to be generated
from the seeing. Every new eye
applied to the peep hole which looks
out at the world may fish in some
new beauty and some new pattern,
and the world of the human mind
must be enriched by such fishing."
John Steinbeck, in the forward
from Between Pacific Tides
 ENERGY FLOW
IN ECOSYSTEMS
Explain in a food web that
sunlight is the source of
energy and that this energy
moves from organism to
organism.
 EARTHS
BIOMES
Describe the characteristics of
Earths major terrestrial
biomes and aquatic
communities.