ECOSYSTEMS!

Bell Work 2/5/2015This is a picture of a neighborhood in Japan following the massive tsunami that occurred there in 2011.

1.) Are tsunamis abiotic or biotic factors?

2.) What kind of factor (TEC COPS) would a tsunami be?

3.) What other interrelated factors might be affected by this event?

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Food Web Activity (.gif Lab)

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Today’s Learning Target:

Today I am finishing research on abiotic and biotic factors so that I can display how populations are affected when those factors are changed. I know that I’ll have it when I have completed page 1 of my mini lab using my notebook and research

NEW UNIT:

Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystemaffect populations

AND…

Evaluate competing designs for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services

Δ = -+

Ecosystem Clarifications1.) Within your ecosystem, clarify which part of the ecosystem you are investigating.

a.) Is the grassland here in Shelby Co., or in Africa? That will affect the types of abiotic factors that have an influence on your ecosystem.

2.) Your organisms should display interdependence. If you insert an organism that doesn’t relate to the others, then it doesn’t need to be part of this particular food web.

Tips:

For good pictures (and good .gifs):

1.) Make sure you always take the picture from the same spot, framed the same way. This keeps the gif from being shaky.

2.) Make sure that the picture has enough lighting!

3.) Tape might help you keep the pictures in the correct place, especially if you are going to hold the board up.

Today’s Goals:

Your goals for today:

PAGE 1 of your mini-lab

1.) All abiotic factors considered and recorded

2.) All biotic factors picked, drawn, colored, cut out.

Stretch goals:

1.) Lines drawn, pictures taken

2.) .gif created for part 1

Ecosystems

Forest Habitats Freshwaters Grasslands

Wetlands

Marine/Ocean

Arctic Tundra Desert Mountain

1 2

43 Draw

Cut Out

Take Pics

Color