Ecology
Niche
Lets Review!
How many species and how many organisms?
Individual (one organism)? Population? Community?
Habitat
Habitat
1. Food
2. Water
3. Shelter
4. Space
Niche
Niche
-to grow food
Niche
-to build houses
Niche
What is the niche
of a doctor?
-to keep us healthy!
many others make a
human community work ☺
Niche
-cutting down trees
-building a dam
-building a lodge to live in
-raising a family of beavers
-chewing bark and wood
Niche
-spreaders: they gather and store seeds, and acorns and berries get left behind or forgotten; seeds and berries will grow into new plants
Niche
-serves as food for animals
-roots help hold down the soil and help stop erosion
-serve as shelter and nesting places for birds and other animals
Niche
-moves pollen from flower -controls insect population
to flower -eats carpenter ants
chisels them out of trees with its beak
Adaptations?