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Science Chapter 7, Lesson 1: What are habitats and environments?

Where Things Live?
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Everything that surrounds a living thing makes up its environment.
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Plants and animals depend on their environment to get the things they need to survive.
What resources are shared from environments? Food, water, oxygen, space

Parts of an Ecosystem
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Living and nonliving things interact with each other in their environment.

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An ecosystem is made up of all the living and nonliving things that interact in one place.

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What are two ecosystems in Georgia? Okefenokee Swamp and forests

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The place in an ecosystem where a plant or an animal lives is its habitat.

Pond Ecosystem
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The ecosystem includes all the living and nonliving things that interact with one another.
Name some of the habitats in a pond environment. Fresh water, lily pads, nests

Living Things and their Habitats

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Can any living thing live anywhere? no Give an example and explain. The polar bear cant live in

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a desert because its too hot and not enough food or water.
Why cant a desert owl live in the rainforest? Its too wet.
Where do living things get everything they need to survive? From its habitat

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Changes to Ecosystems
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If all living and nonliving things interact in an ecosystem. What happens when one part of the
ecosystem changes? It can affect all the other parts

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How do beavers affect their ecosystem? They cut down trees to build a dam

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How does this affect other animals in the ecosystem? They lose their homes.

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If a change occurs, what must an animal do? Compete, move, or they may die.

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Name two ways people can change an ecosystem. Cut down trees or drain wetlands