7th Grade

ECOLOGICAL
RELATIONSHIP
DECEMBER 6, 2022
MRS. CHRISTIAN JOY P. REYES
ECOLOGY
• deals with the study of the
ecosystem
• study of “houses”
“oikos” – house
“logos” – study
ECOSYSTEM
The basic structural and functional unit of
ecology.
 BIOTIC COMPONENTS
PRODUCERS CONSUMERS DECOMPOSERS
The organisms that have The organisms that depend on other The final consumers that
organisms for nutrition.
the ability to manufacture feed on dead organic
their own food. matter.

“Autotrophs” - “Heterotrophs” ”saphrotrophs”

”heteros” – others
photosynthesis “trophikos” - nursing
”autos” – self
“trophikos” - nursing *phagotrophs – organisms that “eat
others” as food

Herbivore – feed only plants

Carnivore – feed only animals / meat
Omnivores – feed on both plants and
animals
FOOD CHAIN
Process of eating and being eaten.
FOOD WEB
several food chains
interlinked or
interconnected.
 ECOLOGICAL
RELATIONSHI
PS among
The interactions
the biotic
components of an
ecosystem.
 PREDATION
When an organism kills and
eats another one.
Predator – the organism that
eats
Prey – the organism being
eaten
COMPETITION
Participating
organisms compete
for the same needs in
the environment.
MUTUALISM
Participating
organisms both
benefit from one
another.
COMMENSALIS
M of the participating
One
organisms is benefited
while the other is
unaffected.
 PARASITISM
One of the participating organism
benefited while the other one is
harmed but does not necessarily
die.

Parasite – the organism that

benefits
Host – the organism that is harmed
SEATWORK:
Identify the ecological relationship in each scenario.

_______1. bacterial infection in the body

_______2. “good bacteria” in the digestive tract of
humans
_______3. a mosquito that feeds off blood from a kid
_______4. barnacles on the body of a whale
_______5. snake and mouse in the field