Communities and Ecosystems, Biotic and Abiotic Factors

No-prep Complete Lesson & Exam Questions for AQA GCSE 9-1 Combined Science Trilogy & Biology. Includes tasks with answers and covers 4.7.1.1 (most), 4.7.1.2 and 4.7.1.3 (all) . For 4.7.1.1 the interdependence is covered but not competition, which is in another lesson. Students will learn about communities, ecosystems and biotic and abiotic factors.

A related lesson on Animal Adaptations and Extremophiles is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12622297 and a lesson on Competition in Plants and Animals is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12631291

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What’s Included:
• Starters / Do Now.
• Explanation slides in “chunked” sections with animated diagrams.
• Multiple questions in different question styles and difficulties - no need for worksheets. Each “chunked” explanation section typically includes a set of “learning check / quick questions” followed by a set of in-depth questions on the learning from that “chunk” of the lesson. All questions have answers.
• Exam-style questions on the whole lesson at the end of the lesson- these are unique, based on real exam questions but not just copied from exam boards.
• Answers for all questions
• All easily editable to adapt to your teaching or to use in existing lessons.
• Slightly humorous, at points, if you like that sort of thing.

Learning objectives:

• Describe how populations form communities and communities form ecosystems.
• Describe how organisms in a community can be interdependent, and how this can lead to stable communities.
• Explain the difference between biotic and abiotic factors and explain how a change in a factor might affect a given community given appropriate data or context.

The lesson was written for AQA GCSE Science / Biology but is very likely to be applicable to other exam specifications.
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