Agenda

Notebooks
First

Unit Five LT

Notes:
Environmental
Three

Science, Defined

Basic Ideas

Investigating

Relationships in OUR
ENVIRONMENT

Directions: Notebook Set Up

1.Number the pages, back and front
2.Set up a TABLE OF CONTENTS page on page ONE
3.Tape in ASSIGNMENT SHEET on page TWO/Costas
Levels of Questioning on page THREE
4.Leave page FOUR blank.
5.On page FIVE, start a UNIT FIVE LEARNING
TARGETS PAGE.
6.New work will start on PAGE 7
7.You have 15 minutes

Learning Targets
I

can explain how a change or event

in one part of the environment can
affect other parts of the
environment
I

can describe an ecosystem

can distinguish between abiotic and

biotic factors

can identify the relationships that

exist between the biotic and abiotic
parts of the environment

Only
copy
down
the
stuff in
yellow!

EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED

Environmental Science
Environmental

Science:

Is

interdisciplinary: it involves people who

specialize in different fields (biology, geology,
chemistry, etc.)Environmental science takes
parts of many sciences and puts it all together
to understand how everything is connected

Applies

various physical and biological

sciences to the study of the environment, and
to the problems facing the environment as a
result of human action

Three Basic Ideas: #1

Idea

#1:

The

environment includes both LIVING

and NON-LIVING components
Living=biotic

factors

Non-living=abiotic

Examples?

factors

#2
Idea

#2

In

an environment, there are relationships and

connections between living things and non-living
things, and between living things and other living
things

Examples?

The

SET of relationships involving all the

organisms and their physical environment in
a specific area is called an ecosystem

#3
Human

beings can ALTER the

environment, and thus IMPACT the
connections and relationships that
define an ecosystem, in ways NO
OTHER SPECIES can
Examples?

Processing
Divide
In

page SIX into three sections

each section,

Title

it: Big Idea #1, etc.

DRAW

A PICTURE that ILLUSTRATES EACH OF

THE THREE BASIC IDEAS

Think
You

of the EXAMPLES we talked about

have TWELVE MINUTES

EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED

Directions: Abiotic and Biotic Factors

Divide

page NINE of your notebook into TWO

COLUMNS

Title

the LEFT column ABIOTIC FACTORS and the

RIGHT column BIOTIC FACTORS

Divide

the ABIOTIC FACTORS into TWO MORE

COLUMNS:
Left

hand: Natural Factors

Right
Think
LIST

hand: Things HUMANS make

about OUR ENVIRONMENT: St. Johns

ALL THE ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC FACTORS you can

Next Steps

On

your chart, highlight all HUMAN MADE ABIOTIC

FACTORS you think might have a HARMFUL IMPACT
on the environment

THEN:
Go

Think about RELATIONSHIPS

down your list of BIOTIC FACTORS (living things)

For

each thing, identify as many CONNECTIONS or

RELATIONSHIPS between that organism and your
list of ABIOTIC FACTORS

Draw
YOU

a line identifying EACH RELATIONSHIP

HAVE FIVE MINUTES

Vocab Notes
Organism

individual

Like a 3-toed sloth

Or a Fennec Fox

a single living

Or a tadpole

Or Ryan Gosling

Population

group of living
things of the same
species that live in
the same area.

Example:

People in Portland

lilies in a pond

Bears
A

in Yellowstone

herd of Pronghorn
Antelope

Communities
Community
: All of the
living
things in an
area that
depend on
each other

Ecosystem
Where

it all comes
together

Organisms

(biotic stuff)
interact with their physical
environment (abiotic stuff)
List

5 examples of biotic
factors

List

5 examples of abiotic
factors

Biomes

Many

ecosystems in one area.

Ecosystems

are separated by
climate and geography