PPT-What Types of Ecosystems are There?

By Renee Swank In this activity you will learn all about the types of ecosystem You can read all of the material and watch a short video on ecosystems After you have read the material and watched the video you can take the short quiz to see how much you learned. Chapter 10. Objectives. Describe the factors that characterize the various types of aquatic biomes.. 10.1 Aquatic Biomes. Aquatic Biomes. What type of biomes have we learned about so far?. Rainforest, savannah, desert, . By: Abigail Tracy. Freshwater Biomes. By: Abigail Tracy. What is it ?. A freshwater biome is any body of water that is made of freshwater, such as ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers. Most freshwater biomes consist of moving water and contain many types of fish.. All . ecosystems. contain biotic and abiotic factors. Biotic. = living features. Abiotic. = non-living physical features. Relationship between biotic and abiotic factors is important to ecosystem health. . Table of Contents. Section 3: . Aquatic Ecosystems. Section 1: . How Ecosystems Change. Section 2: . Biomes. Chapter: Ecosystems. . Table of Contents. Section 1: . How Ecosystems Change. Mosses from my back yard. There are two main categories of freshwater ecosystems. What is the main . difference between. these two ecosystems? . Standing water . v. . flowing-water ecosystems. Standing water—staying still, not moving. - Jacques Ives Cousteau. 2. New Orleans is nested between the mouth of the Mississippi River and the brackish estuary of Lake Pontchartrain.. 3. A series of floodwalls, or levees, protects the city from ocean surges from large storms.. Chapter 3 (Miller and . Spoolman. , 2010). Core Case Study: Tropical Rain Forests Are Disappearing. Cover about 2% of the earth’s land surface. Contain about 50% of the world’s known plant and animal species. Environmental Literacy Project. Michigan State University. . Ecosystems . Unit. Activity 1.3 . Key Features of Ecosystems. 1. Unit map. You are here. 2. What is an ecosystem?. An ecosystem is a group of living and nonliving things in a place that has a specific climate, landforms, soil types, and vegetation. . Aquatic ecosystems are primarily determined by the ecosystem’s . salinity. . Salinity refers to the dissolved salt content of the water.. Aquatic ecosystems are divided into freshwater and marine ecosystems.. What are Ecosystems? . Groups of living things and the non-living environment in which they live.. The people that study ecosystems are called: . “ecologists.”. Let’s look at the living parts of the ecosystem:. Ocean Zones & Ecosystems. Freshwater Zones & Ecosystems. Related Ecology. Benthic Division. 6 Areas. . 1. Supralittoral zone. (supra= upper, litus=shore). . Water splashes but does not stay submerged. What is ecology?. It is the science that studies how . organisms. relate to each other and their . environment. .. Considers both . biotic. (living) and . abiotic. (nonliving) aspects.. Examples of abiotic factors: . TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS. AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS. Ms. Catherine T. . Añano. (Fulltime Lecturer). Terrestrial ecosystems. A . terrestrial ecosystem is an ecosystem found only on landforms. . . Six . primary terrestrial ecosystems . BY. . A.Swedha. Assistant Professor. Department of Microbiology. Jamal Mohamed College(Autonomous). . Trichy. Ecosystem. What Is An Ecosystem? . An ecosystem forms the basic building block of an environment. .