Ecosystems

Notebook:

50. Ecology

51. Table of Contents

52. Learning Log

53. Vocabulary

54. Elimination reasoning

55. Probe 

56. 4 square - what about

57. Leaf

58. Sunlight & Life

59. Sunlight & Life ch...

60. Microscope

61. Microscope lab

62. Photosynthesis molecules

63. Glucose math

64. Ecosphere/Biggest Loser

65. Chloroplast/Mitochondria

66. Carbon Cycle

67. Carbon Cycle

68. Circle of Life

69. Food chain

70. Human impact

71. Food webs (3)

72. Key concepts flip

73. Energy Pyramid

74. Sexual & Asexual reproduction

75. Birth & Death tokens

76. Parent reflection

77. Student reflection

Vocabulary:

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Organism - Living things

Photosynthesis (photo=light  synthesis=put together) - The process which plants and other producers use energy from sunlight to change carbon dioxide and water to produce glucose.

Chlorophyll (chloro=green, phyll=leaf) - The pigment that makes leaves green and helps absorb sunlight.

Chloroplast (chloro=green, plast=form) - The part of a cell where photosynthesis happens.

Energy storage molecule - A molecule that organisms can use to release energy needed to survive (stored chemical energy)

Glucose - An energy storage molecule that organisms can use to release energy; it is made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms.

Biotic (bio=life) - Matter that makes up living and dead organisms in an ecosystem

Abiotic (a=without, bio=life) - Matter that makes up the nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

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cellular respiration  - The chemical reaction between glucose and oxygen that releases energy into the cells.

mitochondria - The part of the cell where cell respiration happens.

autotroph - (auto=self, troph=feed) - An organism that makes their own energy storage molecules (like glucose).

heterotroph - (hetero=other, troph=feed) - An organism that needs to eat in order to get energy storage molecules (like starch and fat).

producer - An organism that makes their own energy storage molecules (like glucose).

consumer - An organism that needs to eat in order to get energy storage molecules (like starch and fat).

Ecosystem (Eco = house/dwelling) - All the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area

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Population - A group of the same type of organisms living in the same area.

Resource - A supply. In ecology, resource populations are the organisms eaten by a consumer population.

Food web  - A model that shows what eats what in an ecosystem.

Decomposer  - A living thing that feeds on and breaks down organic material (dead or waste material).

Reproduction - The process of creating offspring.

Predation - The relationship between two living things where the predator eats the prey.

Competition - When two or more populations use the same resource, such as the same food source.

Indirect Effect - the result of one cause leading to an effect that causes one or more other effects.

• Example - dominoes falling one after the other

• Non-example - pushing a domino over