“Matter can neither be created nor destroyed…it only changes forms.”

Food Chains!

Review

The Water Cycle!

A. EVAPORATION-

B. CONDENSATION-

C. PRECIPITATION-

D. TRANSPIRATION-

A.

B.

C.

D.

The process of water becoming a vapor.

Gas turns into a liquid phase.

Water falling to the earth.

Loss of water from a plant through its leaves.

The circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again

The Carbon Cycle!

A. PLANTS TAKE IN CO2 “PHOTOSYNTHESIS”

B. WE BREATHE IN O2 FROM PLANTS

C. WE EAT FOOD (CARBON) FROM PLANTS

D. WE BREATHE OUT CO2 “CELLULAR RESPIRATION”

FOOD (C)

OXYGEN (O2)

CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2)A.

B.

C.

D.

BAD CO2 INTO THE AIR

Air Pollution

Summarize the nitrogen cycle in 5 sentences.

Get Out your “Matter is Recycled” GO Notes, BrainPOP GO Notes and Animal behavior GO Notes

ANYTHING THAT PREVENTS SOME THINGS FROM LIVING IN AN AREA.

(NONLIVING)

TEMPERATURE RAIN SOIL

BIOTIC

(LIVING)

FOODPREDATORS

SOMETHING AN ORGANISM HAS TO SURVIVE IN THE ENVIRONMENT.

EXAMPLE?◦ Thick fur coat of an arctic fox ◦ Chameleon changes colors

ABILITY TO WITH STAND CHANGE.

Levels off

MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF INDIVIDUALS THE

ENVIRONMENT CAN SUPPORT!

ABOVE CARRYING CAPACTIY (CC) ◦ TOO MANY, SOME MUST DIE.

BELOW CARRYING CAPACITY (CC)◦ ROOM FOR MORE

A series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time.

NEW PLACE, OCCURS WHERE NO SOIL EXISTS.

EX. AFTER A VOLCANO

SLOW, PIONEER SPECIES.

SECONDARY

FOLLOWING A DISTRUBANCE THAT DESTROYS A COMMUNITY WITHOUT DESTROYING THE SOIL.FOREST FIRE

FASTER BECAUSE ALREADY HAS LIFE AND SOIL.

1. PIONEEER SPECIES- LICHEN AND MOSS2. GRASSES3. BUSHES4. PINE TREES5. HARDWOOD TREES

STABLE, A COMMUNITY THAT DOESN’T UNDERGO FURTHER SUCCESSION.

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