Review of Ecology Ecosystems Food Chains Food Webs

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Review of EcologyEcosystemsFood ChainsFood
Webs
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Ecology

• What is Ecology?
• Ecology looks at living things and the
  environments that they inhabit

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Ecosystem

• What is an Ecosystem?
• A smaller self contained environment such as a
  forest, lake, or stream
• Includes its own set of plants and animals,
  and local conditions such as temperature, wind,
  and rain.

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Food Chains

• What is a Food Chain?
• A series of event in which one organism eats
  another and obtains energy

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Food Webs

• What is a Food Web?
• A Food Web consists of the many overlapping
  food chains in an ecosystem

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Biomes

• What is a Biome?
• A Biome is a group of ecosystems with similar
  climates and organism.

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Biomes

• Classifying ecosystems into biomes helps
  ecologists describe the world.
• It is mostly the climate conditions (temperature
  and rainfall) that determine an areas biome.

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Types of Biomes

• Ecologists do not all agree on the exact number
  and kinds of biomes.
• 8-10
• Six major land biomes
• Two major water biomes
• Sometimes Mountains and Ice will be considered
  biomes

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Six major Land Biomes

• Rain Forest Biomes
• - Tropical Rain Forest
• - Temperate Rain Forest
• Desert Biomes
• Grassland Biomes
• Deciduous Forest Biomes
• Boreal Forest Biomes
• Tundra Biomes

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Two major Water Biomes

• Freshwater Biomes
• - Ponds and Lakes
• - Streams and Rivers
• Marine Biomes
• - Estuaries
• - Intertidal Zone
• - Neritic Zone
• - Surface Zone
• - Deep Zone