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Unit Ecology

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Unit: Ecology

 

Essential Questions: How do organisms and environment influence each another? (Interactions between organisms, Interactions between organism and environments). 

 


 

Chapter 3, 4, 5, 6

 

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this unit, you should be able to.... (Those in bold will be essential & will be assessed formally in the curriculum)

 

Objectives

1.

Identify biotic and abiotic factors and be able to discuss how living things respond to these factors. 

2.

Define ecology and the different levels in an ecosystem. (individual, population, community, ecosystem. biome, and biosphere)

3.
Identify and discuss the interactions of organisms in the environment and identify their niche. 
4.
Make and read simple food chain and food web. Understand different trophic levels. 
5.

Understand and explain an ecological pyramids (Trophic, biomass, and numbers), and understand the energy transfer between the levels.

6.

Explain what factors determine and influence an organism habitat and specific ecosystem. 

7.

Discuss and define different interactions between organisms: mutualism, commensalism, predation, parasitism.

8.

Create and interpret population graphs. Understand carrying capacity.

9. Explain how birth, death, immigration and emigration influence population size. 
10. Explain how limiting factors affect the population size.
11. Define succession, know the roles of pioneer organisms and explain what a climax community is.
12.

Know the major biomes and their characteristics: Tropical Rain Forest, Grassland, Desert, Deciduous Forest, Taiga Forest, Tundra

13. Be able to explain the role that water and temperature play in the biomes.
14. Give examples of how human activities that shape local and global ecology. 

 

Vocabulary:

ecology biosphere
species population community
ecosystem biome autotroph produces photosynthesis
chemosynthesis heterotroph consumer herbivore carnivore
omnivore detritivore decomposer food chain food web
trophic level ecological pyramid biomass weather climate
greenhouse effect biotic factor abiotic factor habitat niche
resource predation symbiosis mutualism commensalism
parasitism ecological succession primary succession pioneer species climax community
biome population density immigration emigration exponential growth
logistic growth carrying capacity      
          

 

Worksheets/Labs/Handouts:

 

Other Resources:

http://www.blueworldtv.com/webisodes

http://www.blueworldtv.com/webisodes/watch/symbiosis-in-the-sea

 

 

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