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)
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Objectives
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Identify biotic and abiotic factors and be able to discuss how living things respond to these factors.
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Define ecology and the different levels in an ecosystem. (individual, population, community, ecosystem. biome, and biosphere)
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Identify and discuss the interactions of organisms in the environment and identify their niche. |
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Make and read simple food chain and food web. Understand different trophic levels. |
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Understand and explain an ecological pyramids (Trophic, biomass, and numbers), and understand the energy transfer between the levels.
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Explain what factors determine and influence an organism habitat and specific ecosystem.
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Discuss and define different interactions between organisms: mutualism, commensalism, predation, parasitism.
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Create and interpret population graphs. Understand carrying capacity.
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Explain how birth, death, immigration and emigration influence population size.
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Explain how limiting factors affect the population size. |
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Define succession, know the roles of pioneer organisms and explain what a climax community is. |
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Know the major biomes and their characteristics: Tropical Rain Forest, Grassland, Desert, Deciduous Forest, Taiga Forest, Tundra
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Be able to explain the role that water and temperature play in the biomes. |
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Give examples of how human activities that shape local and global ecology. |
Vocabulary:
ecology |
biosphere
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species |
population |
community
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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 |
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Worksheets/Labs/Handouts:
Other Resources:
http://www.blueworldtv.com/webisodes
http://www.blueworldtv.com/webisodes/watch/symbiosis-in-the-sea
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