Ecosystems year 3 CL

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 2

Ecosystems Year 3 CL 

Large  Ecosystems

Goals week 4/5 

You're able to describe what an ecosystem is 

-You know there are ecoystems on different scale levels

What is ecology?

Environment = living environment

The environment affects organisms (living and non-living factors) 
 

Ecology: investigates the relationships between organisms and their environment

 Wat is ecology?

We divide environmental influences into 2 groups

Abiotic factors: inanimate nature

Biotic factors: living natureI

abiotic vs. biotic

The earth as an ecosystem

• Ecosystem is an area in which everything that lives and grows balances each other.
  
• Forest, desert, tundra, rainforest etc.
  
• Factors: Abiotic and biotic
  
• cycle 

Ecosystem and factors

Landscape and climate play a key role in the emergence of ecosystems 

Disrupted ecosystem

Problems due to exceeding the carrying capacity of the earth:

• Drought and water stress
  
• Species that are going extinct
  
• Climate change
  
• Environmental pollution
  
• Land degradation