What is ecology?
The study of living things and their environment
Environment
Everything that surrounds an organism
Food chain
Shows how organisms are linked by what they eat.
The number of intercostal chains.
What does every food chain start with?
Green plant
Consumers
Organisms that eat the green plant
What do plants fight for?
Light
Water
Minerals
Space
What do animals fight for?
Food
Shelter
Territory
Mates
Interdependence
How organisms depend on each other for their survival
Quadrat
Square frame- used to estimate plant numbers - 10 throws
what is green house gas caused by?
Carbon dioxide