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1 CHAPTER 1 1 Everything Is Connected SECTION Interactions of Living Things BEFORE YOU READ After you read this section, you should be able to answer these questions: What do organisms in an ecosystem depend on for survival? What are biotic and abiotic factors? What are the levels of organization in the environment? National Science Education Standards LS 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d What Is the Web of Life? All organisms, or living things, are linked together in the web of life. In this web, energy and resources pass between organisms and their surroundings. The study of how different organisms interact with one another and their environment is ecology. An alligator may hunt along the edge of a river. It may catch a fish, such as a gar, that swims by too closely. As it hunts, the alligator is interacting with its environment. Its environment includes other organisms living in the area. The alligator depends on other organisms to survive, and other organisms depend on the alligator. However, one organism eating another is not the only way living things interact. For example, when it gets too hot, the alligator may dig a hole in the mud under water. When the alligator no longer uses the hole, fish and other organisms can use it. They may live in the hole when the water level in the rest of the river is low. STUDY TIP Underline As you read, underline any new science terms. Find their definitions in the section review or a dictionary. Make sure you learn what each term means before you move to the next section. Living things in an environment interact. Say It Discuss With a partner, talk about the organisms in this picture. How do you think each type of organism interacts with the others? What kind of things do you think each of these organisms needs to survive? Interactive Textbook 1 Interactions of Living Things
2 SECTION 1 Everything Is Connected continued READING CHECK 1. Compare What is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors? Critical Thinking 2. Identify Relationships How are the first two levels of organization related? What Are the Two Parts of an Environment? An organism s environment is made up of biotic and abiotic parts. Biotic describes the living parts of the environment, such as fish. Abiotic describes the nonliving parts of the environment, such as rivers. Organisms need both biotic and abiotic parts of the environment to live. How Is the Environment Organized? The environment can be organized into five levels. Individual organisms are at the first level. The higher levels include more and more parts of the environment. The highest level is called the biosphere. It is the largest level, and includes all the other levels. 1. An individual is a single organism. Organism 2. A population is a group of individuals of the same species in the same area. For example, all the alligators in the same river make a population. The whole population uses the same area for food and shelter. Critical Thinking 3. Infer Could a community be made up of only one population of organisms? Explain. 3. A community is made up of all the different populations that live and interact in the same area. The different populations in a community depend on each other. For example, alligators eat other animals, including fish. Alligators create water-filled holes where fish and other organisms in the river can live during dry seasons. Community Interactive Textbook 2 Interactions of Living Things
3 SECTION 1 Everything Is Connected continued 4. An ecosystem is made up of a community and its abiotic environment. The abiotic factors provide resources for all the organisms and energy for some. A river, for example, can provide water for river plants and many animals, and shelter for water insects. It can provide nutrients for plants, as well as food for fish and alligators. 5. The biosphere is the part of Earth where life exists. The biosphere is the largest environmental level. It reaches from the bottom of the ocean and the Earth s crust to high in the sky. Scientists study the biosphere to learn how organisms interact with abiotic parts of the environment. These abiotic parts include Earth s atmosphere, water, soil, and rock. TAKE A LOOK 4. Identify Use colored pencils to make circles on the picture. Circle an individual in red. Circle a population in blue. Circle a community in brown. Circle an ecosystem in green. Math Focus 5. Calculate From sea level, the biosphere goes up about 9 km and down about 19 km. What is the thickness of the biosphere in meters? Interactive Textbook 3 Interactions of Living Things
4 Section 1 Review SECTION VOCABULARY abiotic describes the nonliving part of the environment, including water, rocks, light, and temperature biosphere the part of Earth where life exists biotic describes living factors in the environment community all of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other NSES LS 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d ecology the study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment ecosystem a community of organisms and their abiotic, or nonliving, environment population a group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area 1. Compare What is the difference between a community and an ecosystem? 2. Organize Complete the chart below to describe the five levels of the environment, from smallest to largest. Level Description a single organism all of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with one another 3. Identify What two kinds of factors does an organism depend on for survival? 4. Infer Would all the birds in an area make up a population? Explain your answer. Interactive Textbook 4 Interactions of Living Things
5 E Environmental Science Answer Key Chapter 1 Interactions of Living Things SECTION 1 EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED 1. Biotic factors are living; abiotic factors are nonliving. 2. Individuals make up a population. Both levels include organisms of only one species. 3. No, different populations must interact in an ecosystem. 4. A single alligator or bird should be circled in red, the three alligators in blue, all the animals and plants in brown, and the whole picture in green ,000 m Review 1. A community is all the populations that interact in the same area. An ecosystem is the community plus the abiotic factors in the environment. 2. Level Description Individual Community a single organism a group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area all of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with one another a community of organisms and their abiotic environment the part of Earth where life exists 3. An organism depends on biotic factors (other organisms) and abiotic factors (water, rocks, light, temperature, air). 4. No, only organisms of one species make up a population. There are usually more than one species of bird in an area. SECTION 2 LIVING THINGS NEED ENERGY 1. Producers use energy from sunlight to make their own food. 2. Tigers: carnivores Deer: herbivores Humans: omnivores 3. Decomposers break down dead matter into nutrients for other organisms to use. 4. Labels go on sun, grasses, prairie dog, coyote, vulture, and bacteria, in that order. 5. Most organisms eat more than one type of food. 6. Without producers, consumers would have no food. None of the animals would live. 7. about 90% 8. The middle level deer are herbivores like the prairie dogs. 9. Wolves were at the top of the food chain and controlled the populations of herbivores. Review 1. Producers use energy from the sun to make their own food. Producers are the base of the food chain. All consumers depend on producers. 2. Grass (Producer) Mouse (Primary consumer) Snake (Secondary consumer) 3. Answers will vary but should include at least one of the organisms from question No, energy is lost as it moves through a food chain. After a few steps in the chain, there isn t enough energy left to support more organisms. SECTION 3 TYPES OF INTERACTIONS 1. a resource that keeps a population from growing forever 2. if the amount of the limiting factor changes 3. in competition, as predator and prey, through symbiosis, and coevolution 4. elk and prairie dogs 5. speed, colors that let them blend with the environment 6. Possible answer: It may be difficult for the predator to see individual animals in the group. 7. Any combination of black and orange patches is acceptable. 8. mutualism, commensalism, parasitism 9. In mutualism, both species benefit. In commensalism, only one species benefits. 10. The host is hurt. 11. The wasps can use the caterpillar for food. Interactive Textbook Answer Key 29 Environmental Science
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Chapter 36: Population Growth. Population Concepts. Population: Carrying Capacity: Critical Number: Growth Rate: Growth rate = Birth rate - Death rate
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