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Eco – Living Things.
System – a collection of different activities working together.
Achievement Objective:
Living World: Ecology – “Explore and describe the interconnections and interdependence of living things in an ecosystem.”
Learning Objective:
Students will understand the concept of ecosystems and identify the components that make up an ecosystem, including both biotic and abiotic factors.
The physical environment is the surroundings of an organism, it includes the atmosphere, land, and water. An organism may depend on its environment for nutrients, light, warmth, shelter, and space.
Biotic Factors are:
- Competition.
- Predation.
- Parasites.
- Food Availability.
- Disease.
The habitat of a species is the place where members of the species live and reproduce.
The habitat of the Australian Gannet:
- Coastal Areas of New Zealand and Australia.
- The breeding habitat is mostly on small offshore islands.
- All juvenile New Zealand birds migrate to Australia
A community consists of all the organisms in a particular location, e.g, all the plants, animals, and microorganisms living in a pond.
Relationships include:
- Predators – Animals eating other animals.
- Grazing – Animals eating plants.
- Competition – Two different species competing for the same resources.
- Parasitism – A species lives on or in another species and feeds off them.
- Infection – One species infects another species, causing illness or death.
- Mutalism – Two species living together and helping each other.
- Commensalism – One species helps another species without return.