Organisms and environments

6.12(C)

Organisms, Populations, and Communities

Describe the hierarchical organization of organism, population, and community within an ecosystem.

Part of The student knows that interdependence occurs between living systems and the environment

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Levels of Life in an Ecosystem

Living things in an ecosystem are organized in levels, from smallest to largest. This lesson shows how one organism grows into a population, and how populations combine into a community, each level built from the one below it.