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Do Now:
1. What does it mean to categorize?
2. Why do people categorize?
Set the Table: Science notebook, pencil, and planner.
Answer the following questions on the LEFT side of your science notebook.DO NOW:
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Standard or Target
LS2A: Ecosystems An ecosystem is the living and nonliving things within a specific area.
Target: Describe the abiotic, biotic, and cultural parts of an ecosystem.
Today's Target
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As a table group, categorize the items in your lab bin
As a group, choose how you will categorize your items.
Group your items in 3 separate categories.
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How did you categorize your items?
How and why do scientist group living things?
There are a lots of things in our universe. To be able to study them, we need some way to group or classify them together. Initially scientists divide all things into living vs. nonliving, and then continue to subdivide.
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Abiotic nonliving, not alive, never was aliveBiotic living, or was once aliveCultural changed by humans
How scientists categorize
What about all that stuff made or changed by humans?
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Characteristics of Living Things
Is it made of one or more cells?
Does it grow and develop?
Does it respond to change?
Does it reproduce?
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Now recategorize your items into 3 groups:
Abiotic
Cultural
Biotic
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Classify these objects as either biotic or abiotic
Biotic Abiotic
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Identify the biotic and abiotic factors in this lake ecosystem
deer
grasswater
temperature
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