Group 6

LIVING THINGS AND

THE ENVIRONMENT!
 LIVING THINGS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT

• An organism or type of living thing

needs to obtain food, water, shelter
and other things it needs to live, grow,
and reproduce from its environment.

• An environment that provides the

things an organism needs to live is
called its habitat.
Factors in an Environment
Biotic – living parts of the environment.
Ex. Producers and consumers.
Abiotic – nonliving parts of the
environment.
Ex. water, sunlight, oxygen,
temperature, and soil.
Photosynthesis: The process of a plant
making its own food.
 Biological Complexity
• Living organisms can be Biosphere
studied at different levels
of complexity. Biome
• From least to most
complex, these levels are Ecosystem
(in an ecological context):
– Individual / Species Community
– Population
– Community Population
– Ecosystem
– Biome Individual

– Biosphere
Populations
A species is a group of
organisms that are physically
similar and can reproduce with
each other.

Organisms do not generally live

Migrating wildebeest population
alone. A population is a group
of organisms from the same
Tiger populations comprise
species occupying in the same widely separated individuals
geographical area.

This area may be difficult to

define. Why?
 Communities and Ecosystems

• A community is all the populations that

live together in an area.

• An ecosystem is the community of

organisms that live in a particular area and
along with their nonliving surroundings.
**The community and the abiotic factors together form an
ecosystem.
 Ecology
• The study of how living things interact with
each other and their environment.