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What are they and how do they work?. Chapter 3: Ecosystems. Cell Review. Smallest functional unit of life Cell theory All living things are made of cells Single or multi-cellular Prokaryotic Eukaryotic. http://www.cic-caracas.org/departments/science/Topic1.php.
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What are they and how do they work? Chapter 3: Ecosystems
Cell Review • Smallest functional unit of life • Cell theory • All living things are made of cells • Single or multi-cellular • Prokaryotic • Eukaryotic
Ecology • Study of how organisms interact with one another and with their physical environment (matter and energy) • Connections in Nature
Levels of Organization http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfruf/bio3002/levels_ecology.htm
Species • Set of individuals that can mate and produce fertile offspring • Classification system • KPCOFGS • Genus species or Genus species
Population • Group of individuals of the same species hat live in the same place a the same time • Variation – genetic diversity • Habitat – where they live
Community • Biological community • All the populations of different species that live in a particular place
Ecosystem • Community of different species interacting with one another and with their nonliving environment (soil, water, other forms of matter, and energy) • No clear boundaries • Not isolated
Biomes • Large regions of land with distinct climates and certain species • Especially vegetation • Aquatic Biomes • Marine • Freshwater (2%)
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Biosphere • The Global ecosystem in which all organisms exist and can interact wit one another • Parts of the • atmosphere • hydrosphere and • geosphere where life exists
Atmosphere • Thin spherical envelope of gases surrounding the earths surface • Troposphere – greenhouse gases • Stratosphere – ozone layer
Hydrosphere • All the water on or near the earth’s surface • Liquid, solid, gas forms • 71% in Ocean
Geosphere • Earth’s core, mantel and outer crust http://thegeosphere.pbworks.com/
3 Factors work together within the Spheres 4 spheres make up the Life – support System
Gravity • Allows the planet to hold onto its atmosphere • Enables movement and cycling of chemicals through air, water, soil and organisms
2 components of an Ecosystem • Abiotic • Nonliving components • water, air, nutrients, rocks, heat, solar energy • Biotic • Living and once living biological components • Plants, animals, microbes
Range of Tolerance • Different species and their populations thrive under different physical and chemical conditions
Limiting Factor Principle • Too much or too little of any abiotic factor can limit or prevent growth of a population, even if all other factors are at or near the optimal range of tolerance • Contributes to population control • Examples?
Trophic(feeding) levels • Producers • Autotrophs • “Self – feeders” • Photosynthesis 6CO2 + 6H2O = light = C6H12O6 + 6O2 • Chemosynthesis
Trophic(feeding) levels • Consumers • Heterotrophs • “Other – feeders” • Herbivores, Carnivores, Higher-level Carnivores, Omnivores, • Decomposers, Detritivores
Page 61 Science Focus Many of the World’s most important species are invisible to us
The movement of nutrients (blue arrows) and energy (red arrows) and both (brown arrows) through the ecosystem http://apesnature.homestead.com/chapter2.html
Food Chains • Sequence of organisms, each of which serves as a source of food or energy for the next http://producersconsumers.wikispaces.com/11
Food Web Complex network of interconnected food chains http://envirosci.net/111/niches/niches.htm
Useable energy decreases • Ecological efficiency • % of usable chemical energy transferred from one tropic level to the next • Typically 10% • Pyramid of Energy Flow