ecology

1. Who eats
who!!!!! Help!!!

2. Level Can do
now
YOU NEED TO KNOW…… REVIEW
3 Know how an animal is suited to where it lives,
i.e. fish have fins & gills.
Know the basic difference between vertebrates
& invertebrates.
4 Know that plants & animals can be put into
different groups – classified.
Understand how to use a key to identify an
organism.
Be able to draw simple food chains and identify
producer & consumer.
5 Draw food webs and explain how the organisms
rely on each other.
Know that environmental factors affect where
organisms can live.
6 Predict how environmental predators can affect
population sizes.
Draw pyramids of numbers to represent
population in a food chain.
7 Describe how energy flows through a food chain.

3. Objectives
Today I will learn:
• The important physical factors in the
environment of animals and plants
• How plants and animals differ due to
their environment (Adaptation)
• How to identify producers primary
consumers and predators
• How to sort ‘classify’ animals into groups

4. Objectives
In today’s lesson I will also learn:
• About the different habitats organisms
live in.
• How to describe the environment of
different habitats.
• About the special adaptations that
organisms have to help them live in their
habitat.

5. Key words
• Habitat
• Environment
• Adapted
• Adaptation
• Producer
• Consumer
• Predator

7. Raw Meat
sounds
good
Just
give me
a carrot

9. Habitats
o What is a habitat?
o The place where an organism lives is
called a habitat.

10. Different organisms live in different
habitats.
Can you name some organisms for each of
the habitats?

11. Pond

12. Woodland

13. Sea

14. Environment
• The word environment is used to
describe what a habitat is like.
.

15. Adaptations
• Adaptations are features which organisms
have that help them survive in their habitat
I would call
my
environment

16. So what lives here??
This place was
a bit
too…………………….

17. A camels habitat is a desert
Hot, Dry but
at least you
don’t get
bothered by
people

18. • Adaptations: They are desert animals and have numerous
adaptations for life in an arid habitat.
1. The hump stores fat, which they are able to draw upon for water.
2. They have webbed feet (to prevent sinking in the sand);
3. They can close their nostrils and they have a double row of
eyelashes to keep out the sand.
4. They can endure long periods without drinking - up to 17 days.
5. When they do drink, they can take up to 136 litres (30 gallons) at
a time. By producing dry faeces and little urine, they can conserve
water.
6. Their body temperature can rise 6-8 degree Celsius before
sweating.

19. Apart from the
camels this place is
great!!
So what if I
don’t have
any leaves!!!

20. Who lives here???

21. I do
It’s the right
temperature
and no-one but
no-one messes
with me

22. Who eats
who??

23. So who eats grass?

24. We do
But who
eats us??

25. We do……

26. There is
nothing like
a Sunday
joint of
human!!!

27. Rate your Understanding
I think I am an expert
I think I have a good idea
? I think I have got some of it
Help – can you go through it
again

28. Objectives
Today I have learned:
• The important physical factors in the
environment of animals and plants
• How plants and animals differ due to
their environment (Adaptation)
• How to identify producers primary
consumers and predators
• How to sort ‘classify’ animals into groups

29. Objectives
In today’s lesson I have also learned:
• About the different habitats organisms
live in.
• How to describe the environment of
different habitats.
• About the special adaptations that
organisms have to help them live in their
habitat.

30. Rate your Understanding
I think I am an expert
I think I have a good idea
? I think I have got some of it
Help – can you go through it
again

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