Earth has four main interacting systems: the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere. The biosphere contains all living things and is dependent on abiotic and biotic factors. Energy from the sun moves through food chains and webs as organisms consume other organisms or plants. Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat herbivores or other carnivores, and omnivores eat both plants and animals. Decomposers break down waste and cycle nutrients through the biosphere.
Estuaries Ecosystem : Where River Meets Ocean
Everything about estuary ecosystem has been elaborated including Introduction, Types, Physical and Chemical Characteristics , Biota, Marsh Lands, Mangrove Forests, Food Web, Threats, Conservation, Restoration etc....
Freshwater Ecosystems include standing water or lentic such as lakes, ponds, marshes and wet lands, and the flowing water or lotic such as spring, streams and rivers. This ecosystem is normally of very low salinity usually between 15 to 30 ppt. They are highly variable and their characteristics depend upon the surrounding geology, land use and pollution levels.
Estuaries Ecosystem : Where River Meets Ocean
Everything about estuary ecosystem has been elaborated including Introduction, Types, Physical and Chemical Characteristics , Biota, Marsh Lands, Mangrove Forests, Food Web, Threats, Conservation, Restoration etc....
Freshwater Ecosystems include standing water or lentic such as lakes, ponds, marshes and wet lands, and the flowing water or lotic such as spring, streams and rivers. This ecosystem is normally of very low salinity usually between 15 to 30 ppt. They are highly variable and their characteristics depend upon the surrounding geology, land use and pollution levels.
An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water which has a free connection with the open sea and within which sea water mixes with fresh water. This module highlights the details of estuaries as one of the productive coastal ecosystems.
Ecosystems are distinguished by a combination of biotic and abiotic factors. The slideshow first shows images of each terrestrial ecosystem separated by climate zone, and then finishes with mystery ecosystems for students to identify and describe. Ask your students to identify the abiotic factors such as amount of precipitation, elevation, temperature, etc., and how that affects the life zone of of the ecosystem (biodiversity, height of plant growth, etc.).
The Estuarine System consists of deepwater tidal habitats and adjacent tidal wetlands that are usually semienclosed by land but have open, partly obstructed, or sporadic access to the open ocean, and in which ocean water is at least occasionally diluted by freshwater runoff from the land. The salinity may be periodically increased above that of the open ocean by evaporation. Along some low-energy coastlines there is appreciable dilution of sea water. Offshore areas with typical estuarine plants and animals, such as red mangroves (Rhizophora mangle) and eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica), are also included in the Estuarine System.
Temperature – limiting factor [autosaved] newSumer Pankaj
Temperature is the degree or the intensity of heatness or coldness of any object surroundings or organism and it plays a major role in development and growth of organisms in various ways like affect on metabolism, reproduction, sex ratio, morphology etc. Some organisms are adapted to extreme high temperatures and extreme low temperatures, which make them to sustain their life easily. There are many ways by which organisms can sustain themselves in these areas like occurrence of hibernation, activation, morphological and physiological changes etc. Though organisms have made their lives very much easier, temperature plays a major role in their growth and development.
This is a biosphere powerpoint I've created for a middle school level science class. It's full of fun animated cartoons and facts on both aquatic and terrestrial biomes.
An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water which has a free connection with the open sea and within which sea water mixes with fresh water. This module highlights the details of estuaries as one of the productive coastal ecosystems.
Ecosystems are distinguished by a combination of biotic and abiotic factors. The slideshow first shows images of each terrestrial ecosystem separated by climate zone, and then finishes with mystery ecosystems for students to identify and describe. Ask your students to identify the abiotic factors such as amount of precipitation, elevation, temperature, etc., and how that affects the life zone of of the ecosystem (biodiversity, height of plant growth, etc.).
The Estuarine System consists of deepwater tidal habitats and adjacent tidal wetlands that are usually semienclosed by land but have open, partly obstructed, or sporadic access to the open ocean, and in which ocean water is at least occasionally diluted by freshwater runoff from the land. The salinity may be periodically increased above that of the open ocean by evaporation. Along some low-energy coastlines there is appreciable dilution of sea water. Offshore areas with typical estuarine plants and animals, such as red mangroves (Rhizophora mangle) and eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica), are also included in the Estuarine System.
Temperature – limiting factor [autosaved] newSumer Pankaj
Temperature is the degree or the intensity of heatness or coldness of any object surroundings or organism and it plays a major role in development and growth of organisms in various ways like affect on metabolism, reproduction, sex ratio, morphology etc. Some organisms are adapted to extreme high temperatures and extreme low temperatures, which make them to sustain their life easily. There are many ways by which organisms can sustain themselves in these areas like occurrence of hibernation, activation, morphological and physiological changes etc. Though organisms have made their lives very much easier, temperature plays a major role in their growth and development.
This is a biosphere powerpoint I've created for a middle school level science class. It's full of fun animated cartoons and facts on both aquatic and terrestrial biomes.
All of the presentations that i have uploaded are made by me for school projects from 9-12 grade.For most of them you actually need to have learned something to recite and what you see on the presentations are just hints.
This presentation is a combination of different slides which I re-purposed. I included a reference of all the slides I used at the end of my presentation.
A CAPS-based slide show on the Earth and Beyond Module for grade 9's.
The focus is on recapping the different spheres of the earth, looking at the Lithosphere, and discussing the rock cycle, ores and minerals.
Text comes from the DocScientia Workbooks for grade 9's.
Unit 9, Lesson 2 - The Lithosphere
Lesson Outline:
1. The Lithosphere
2. Rocks
3. Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks
4. Minerals
5. Properties of Minerals
6. The Soil
-WHAT ARE ECOSYSTEMS?
-Parts of an Ecosystem
-Different types of organisms live in an ecosystem.
-Community
-Habitat
-Kinds Of Ecosystem
-Types of Ecosystems
-Components of Ecosystem
-Functions of an ecosystem
-PROCESSES OF ECOSYSTEMS
-Energy Flow Chart
-Types of Food Chains (Samples)
-Food Web
-Ecological Pyramids
-Types of Ecological Pyramids
-Industrial Ecology and Recycling Industry
-Recycling
-Environmental management system (EMS)
-ISO 14000
-Objectives of ISO 14000
-How are these standards developed?
-The 17 requirements of the ISO 14001
-Other standards in ISO 14001 series
2. Composition of Earth
Earth Has 4 main systems that interact:
Earth’s
systems
Atmosphere Hydrosphere Biosphere Geosphere
Air/gases water life land/rock
3. Composition of Earth
Earth Has 4 main systems that interact:
The Atmosphere
The Hydrosphere
The Biosphere
Life on Earth
Sea life, plants, flying creatures, humans
Encompasses hydrosphere, upper geosphere, and
lower atmosphere.
The Geosphere
5. The relationship between an organism and its
environment is the study of ecology.
6. Living things interact with Non
living things in the Biosphere
Biotic Factors—
living components
in the biosphere
Biotic, meaning of
or related to life, are
living factors.
Plants, animals,
fungi, protist and
bacteria are all
biotic or living
factors.
7. Living things interact with Non
living things in the Biosphere
Abiotic Factors—
nonliving
components in the
biosphere
Environmental
factors such habitat
(pond, lake, ocean,
desert, mountain) or
weather such as
temperature, cloud
cover, rain, snow,
hurricanes, etc. are
abiotic factors.
8. Role of Water in the Biosphere
Water is the
universal solvent
and the basis of
all life on our
Planet.
The hydrosphere
is important to the
Biosphere!
9. Role of the Sun for the biosphere
The Sun
provides the
light and heat
necessary to
maintain life
on Earth and
is the ultimate
source of
energy.
10. Bioticand abiotic factors combine to create a
system or more precisely, an ecosystem.
An ecosystem is a community of living and
nonliving things.
14. The Impact of Changing Factors
Ifa single factor is changed, perhaps by
pollution or natural phenomenon, the whole
system could be altered.
For example, humans can alter environments
through farming or irrigating. While we
usually cannot see what we are doing to
various ecosystems, the impact is being felt
all over.
For example, acid rain in certain regions has
resulted in the decline of fish population.
15. A food chain
Shows how each living thing gets its food.
Some animals eat plants and some animals eat other
animals.
For example, a simple food chain links the trees, the
giraffes and the lions. Each link in this chain is food for
the next link. A food chain always starts with plant life
and ends with an animal.
16. A food chain
An is added and means “is eaten by”; also shows
the flow of energy (the giraffe gets his energy from the
leaves)
Now we have made a simple food chain.
17. Biosphere
Here is an
example of
another food
chain.
18.
19. Plants are
called
producers or
autotrophs
because they
are able to use
light energy to
make their own
food.
20.
21. Animals cannot make their own food so they
must eat plants and/or other animals. They
are called consumers or heterotrophs.
There are three groups of consumers.
22. Herbivores are animals that only eat plants
or plant products (seeds). They are also
called primary consumers
23. Carnivores are
animals that eat other
animals.
There are 2 kinds of
carnivores
24. Secondary Consumers
are carnivores that eat
herbivores
Herbivores are primary
consumers
Something that makes its
own food is called a
producer
25. Tertiary consumers are
carnivores that eat
other carnivores
killer whales (tertiary
consumer—they eat
another carnivore)
Dolphin (secondary
consumer—they eat a
herbivore)
Herring (primary
consumer—they only eat
plants)
Photoplankton (this
plant produces its own
food)
26. Make your own food chain
Find in your notes where it says to make your
own food chain.
Start with a plant on the very left side.
The arrow means “is eaten by” so think of the
next thing that might eat your plant…and so
on.
27. Animalsand people who eat BOTH animals
and plants are called omnivores
WE EAT PLANTS WE EAT MEAT
28. To sum up:
Animals that eat
only plants.
Animals that eat
only animals.
Animals that eat
both animals AND plants
. Humans are also
omnivores!
29. Then there are decomposers (bacteria, worms,
and fungi) which feed on decaying matter.
These decomposers speed up the decaying
process that releases mineral salts back into the
food chain for absorption by plants as nutrients.
30.
31.
32. Games
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidsco
producer consumer game (pic of cow)
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidsco
Omnivore, carnivore, herbivore game (pic of
person,frog, lion and bear)
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidsco
Matching game (herbivore, carnivore, omnivore)
33. Do you know why there
are more herbivores
than carnivores?
34. In a food chain, energy is
passed from one link to another
Lets say a plant has the # 100 to represent the
energy it has made.
When a herbivore eats, it does not get all the
plant’s energy. It uses up some of the energy in
everyday activities. The herbivore may only get
10% of that energy.
A carnivore then eats this herbivore. The
carnivore only gets 1% of that plants original
energy. This is why the carnivore has to eat many
herbivores to get enough energy to grow.
35. Energy and mass is transferred from
one level of the food chain to the next
with an efficiency of about 10%.
36. ENERGY’S MOVEMENT IN THE FOOD CHAIN
Because of the
large amount of
energy that is lost at
each link, the
amount of energy
that is transferred
gets lesser and
lesser
The further along
the food chain you
go, the less food
(and energy)
remains available.
37.
38. This energy pyramid shows many
trees & shrubs providing food and
energy to giraffes.
Note that as we go up, there are
fewer giraffes than trees & shrubs
and even fewer lions than giraffes
... as we go further along a food
chain, there are fewer and fewer
consumers.
In other words, a large mass of
living things at the base is required
to support a few at the top ... many
herbivores are needed to support a
few carnivores
39.
40.
41. Most food chains have no more than four or
five links
There cannot be too many links in a single
food chain because the animals at the end of
the chain would not get enough food (and
hence energy) to stay alive.
42. Most animals are part of more than one food
chain and eat more than one kind of food in
order to meet their food and energy
requirements. These interconnected food
chains form a food web.
44. Note that the arrows are drawn from food
source to food consumers ...
substitute the arrows with the words "eaten
by"
The arrows also show the way energy is
moving.
45. Recap
The sun is the source of energy
Water is the source of life on earth
Water is in the hydrosphere, geosphere and
atmosphere, and biosphere.
The living things in the biosphere are dependent on
many nonliving things. (abiotic and biotic)
There are food chains and webs that show what
animals eat. The higher up on the food chain, the
less predators they have.
Be able to describe who receives the most of the
sun’s energy and how energy moves and is
converted through the food chain.
Be able to describe how the systems are connected
(atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere)
46.
http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/frogs/chain_reaction/index.cfm make a foodchain
resource
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm
game food chain
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm
Fun with foodwebs http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/food/food_menu.html
Fill in foodwebs http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm